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Article: Mayor `won't replace' jet fuel tax
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- Chicago Sun-Times
- Article date:
- November 20, 1986
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Mayor Washington yesterday ruled out any new taxes to make up
for $33.7 million lost when the Circuit Court doomed the jet fuel
tax.
He said he is confident the Illinois Supreme Court, on appeal,
will reverse Tuesday's ruling that the aviation portion of the new
city fuel tax breaches the airlines' pact with the city on operation
of O'Hare Airport.
But if the city loses the appeal, he said, "we're not going to
sock the people with another tax. There will not be an additional
tax, period."
Instead, he said, he'll manage the shortfall by imposing hiring
freezes and other economies, a relatively easy objective before the
year starts, when many hundreds of budgeted jobs still are vacant ...