State Senator Neil Anderson issued the following statement after the Senate approved House Bill 3438, legislation that includes a bailout for the Chicago transit system funded in part by a new $1.50 delivery tax on nearly all online orders:
“Chicago’s transit failures are now every Illinoisans’ problem thanks to Democrat lawmakers who rammed through a delivery tax to bail out Brandon Johnson’s broken system. This is nothing but a statewide shakedown to cover up local incompetence. Families are already struggling, and now they’re being forced to pay for a disaster they didn’t cause and won’t benefit from. Democrats failed to fix their transit problems, and now our taxpayers are being forced to foot the bill.”