Blue State Bullies: Illinois Dems’ Outrageous
Strong Arming Of Small Businesses
The Blue State Conservative,
by
Jess Lawson
Original Article
Posted By: Happy Place USA,
4/12/2022 7:57:59 PM
Late on Friday night, when most of us were either sound asleep or out kicking off the weekend with some partying, Democrats at the Illinois statehouse in Springfield were busy trying to save their jobs by bullying owners of gas stations.
In the wee hours of Saturday morning, lawmakers in the Land of Lincoln put forth and passed a controversial and probably unconstitutional bill requiring gas stations to post stickers on their gasoline pumps. The stickers will laud the efforts of the Democrat-controlled legislature by stating the following;
“As of July 1, 2022, the State of Illinois has suspended the inflation adjustment to the motor fuel tax through December 31, 2022.
Reply 1 - Posted by:
sw penn 4/12/2022 8:05:37 PM (No. 1126899)
As of July 1, 2022, the State of Illinois has suspended the inflation adjustment to the motor fuel tax through December 31, 2022.
So, your next scheduled increase in government abuse payments
will be a double whammy.
Yeah!
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
formerNYer 4/12/2022 8:08:03 PM (No. 1126903)
Clearly unconstitutional
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
Scout Finch 4/12/2022 9:10:37 PM (No. 1126953)
Look for Michigan and other blue states follow suite.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
deerejon 4/12/2022 9:50:26 PM (No. 1126992)
Yeah, a big whopping 2.2 cents per gallon.that was the july' tax increase Gee thanks Democrats that will sure save a lot of money for drivers. (NOT) Why don't you take the 35 cent;s tax off that you had put on us the past two years. Fat azz Pritzker thinks he's doing people a big favor.These Dems are all Idiots,just like their leader Demented Joe.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
RWPollock 4/13/2022 2:53:46 AM (No. 1127082)
They really think we are dumb enough to buy this? They obviously think this and such an insult is enough reason to vote them out of office.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
varkdriver 4/13/2022 4:25:29 AM (No. 1127098)
I think a lot of conservative Americans were WAY ahead of the curve on this one. We have been putting stickers on gas pumps ever since Slow Joe and Kamaltoe have been in office.
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
Strike3 4/13/2022 4:29:13 AM (No. 1127100)
Illinois politicians have been bullying and shaking down small businesses for decades, this is not news. Building inspectors, restaurant inspectors, union thugs all have side incomes from shakedown tactics. Democrats have had a stranglehold on this state and that's how they do it.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
mifla 4/13/2022 5:59:14 AM (No. 1127118)
If you have to force people to display a sign that tells everyone you are doing a great job, you are not doing a great job. The residents of Illinois should put a Biden sticker over these propaganda stickers.
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
MSUDoc 4/13/2022 6:52:22 AM (No. 1127149)
#3, Michigan is a red state that was blatantly stolen in 2020. Detroit area is the excrement portal of this beautiful state.
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
billa57 4/13/2022 6:55:21 AM (No. 1127155)
This is similar to what the democrats did in the 70's, going after oil companies until it was no longer profitable to sell gas. Some you might remember what happen then. Are Illinois residents ready to wait in line for hours to get 5 gallons of gas. A Democrat dream come true!
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
Trigger2 4/13/2022 7:08:38 AM (No. 1127177)
It looks like Joey stickers praising the increase of fuel prices worked so well, that the demonrats think there's will work just as well, even if they have to bully the stations to plaster them on.
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
Wetenschapper 4/13/2022 7:33:56 AM (No. 1127193)
The law says only that merchants have to display their little propaganda stickers. It doesn't say that you cannot make each one the centerpiece of a larger display with a title in 3-inch font that says "This is the self-serving lie that your corrupt government demands we display" along with a concise rebuttal of the stickers' content. At this point, it's clearly a First Amendment issue that they cannot contest and the stickers become more of a liability than an asset to their gaslighting campaign. At that point, they would most likely be quietly withdrawn.
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
msjena 4/13/2022 8:19:14 AM (No. 1127234)
Check out Laurel and Hardy in that picture.
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
Speedypetey 4/13/2022 8:38:23 AM (No. 1127249)
We have family in fascist ILL inois. The nice thing is we can fill up at the border and not fill up again until we cross the border. And the reason is not so much the gas tax as it is the fascists legislated a Winter gasoline blend and wait for it, a Summer blend, which cost more than the neighboring state. And the Illinois voters are CLUELESS.
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Reply 15 - Posted by:
walcb 4/13/2022 8:53:17 AM (No. 1127268)
I haven't found IN or WI gas prices to be any better than IL, which always surprises me when I escape the state.
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Reply 16 - Posted by:
udanja99 4/13/2022 8:53:20 AM (No. 1127269)
Way back in 2012 I made stickers which read, “When 0bama came into office, a gallon of gas cost $1.89”. I put them on the pumps every time I stopped for gas. At that time, a gallon was around $3.89 in my area.
The price of gas and the miserable economy in 2012 should have ended 0bama’s presidency, which is why I still believe that that election was stolen. Not that Romney would have been much of an improvement.
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Reply 17 - Posted by:
mc squared 4/13/2022 9:50:07 AM (No. 1127362)
#15; Illinois prices are a 'price umbrella'. Competing businesses can raise their price to just under the 'umbrella' and still be cheaper. In essence, the IL price sets the state border prices too.
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Reply 18 - Posted by:
Strike3 4/13/2022 10:30:15 AM (No. 1127422)
Illinois must find more and better ways to screw the taxpayers because they are so far in debt that they make New York and California governments look like a bunch of financial wizards.
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Reply 19 - Posted by:
MickTurn 4/13/2022 10:46:02 AM (No. 1127461)
WE WILL NOT COMPLY. Come visit us Democraps, we have a bath to give you at the pumps.
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Reply 20 - Posted by:
Zigrid 4/13/2022 11:07:03 AM (No. 1127497)
Ah Sringfield...the seat of unjust power in Illinois...WE know who they are...communists....time to move to Iowa!!
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Reply 21 - Posted by:
darnright 4/13/2022 11:37:16 AM (No. 1127520)
I clearly see an I did that Biden sticker over every one of theirs.
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No way is this constitutional. The business owners should sue the heck out of them.