Jack McGuire Tried To Squash Your Personal Freedom To Eat

On April 13th, 2011, Jack McGuire (D-IL District 86), voted YES to the Trans Fat Bill, HB 1600, luckily on 5/26/11 the Illinois Senate voted NO on this bill. 

This was a job-killing, anti-business, small-business strangling bill, which is another one in a long line of Jack McGuire’s anti-business bills.  Not only in January 2011 did Jack McGuire vote YES for the Largest Tax Increase in Illinois History (67%), on April 2011 he tried to do it again, by affecting the small business baker and wedding cake designer industries! 

HB1600 is a bill which “tramples” over individuals personal freedoms (i.e. your freedom to eat what you want), its anti-business and with his YES vote on this bill, Jack is saying to his constituents: “You’re not smart enough to make your own decisions about your health… so I’ll do it for you!”  You can find the vote online at _____ .

If this bill would have passed it would have cost Illinois Bakeries, Wedding Cake Designers and Donut Shops across Illinois 10-15% of THEIR PROFITS!  

As stated before, it would have also had a “damaging effect” on the Wedding Industry!!!

With the Trans Fat Restriction Act (HB 1600), artificial trans fats would have been banned in Illinois restaurants, movie theaters, bakeries and school vending machines by January, 2013. Government-funded cafeterias will have to get rid of trans fats by 2016.  

"On a day like [in summer], when it's 92 degrees, if you aren't using trans fats (in icing), your wedding cake is not getting to the hall. It will melt," Chicago bakery owner John Roeser III.

Here Are Some Key Average Wedding Statistics

Wedding Spend (excluding honeymoon): $26,984
Most Expensive Area to Get Married (excluding honeymoon): NYC (Manhattan), $70,030
Least Expensive Area to Get Married (excluding honeymoon): Utah, $13,214
Wedding Dress Spend: $1,099
Percentage of Destination Weddings: 24%
Bride’s Age: 29
Groom’s Age: 31
Number of Guests: 141
Average Wedding Spend (on a per guest basis): $194
Number of Bridesmaids: 4
Number of Groomsmen: 4
Length of Engagement: 14 months
Most Popular Engagement Month: December (16%)
Most Popular Wedding Month: June (15%)
Most Popular Wedding Color: White/Ivory (43%)

2010 Average Wedding Budget Breakdown

Overall Wedding (excluding honeymoon): $26,984
Ceremony Site: $1,393
Reception Venue: $12,124
Reception Band: $3,081
Reception DJ: $900
Photographer: $2,320
Videographer: $1,463
Wedding Gown: $1,099
Florist/Décor: $1,988
Invitations: $351
Wedding Cake: $540
Ceremony Musicians: $503
Catering (cost per head): $61
Wedding Day Transportation: $667
Favors: $222
Rehearsal Dinner: $1,127
Engagement Ring: $5,392

Figures based on respondents who hired a professional vendor for the service.

Top 20 Most Expensive Wedding Areas

1. NYC (Manhattan): $70,730
2. NY (Long Island, Hudson Valley and NYC Outer Boroughs): $51,811, $45,695, $44,718
3. Northern/Central NJ and Southern NJ: $49,347, $36,694
4. Rhode Island: $41,169
5. Philadelphia, PA: $36,294
6. Santa Barbara/Ventura, CA, and Los Angeles, CA: $36,233, $33,745
7. Boston, MA: $35,458
8. Chicago, IL: $35,389
9. Connecticut: $35,197
10. Southern Florida (Miami, Fort Lauderdale and surrounding areas): $33,810

11. Washington, DC, Northern Virginia and Suburban Maryland: $33,727
12. Orange County/Inland Empire, CA, and San Diego, CA: $31,954, $30,687
13. San Francisco Bay Area, CA, and California/Nevada (Sacramento, Tahoe and Reno): $31,173, $26,567
14. Baltimore, MD: $30,073
15. Houston, TX: $29,129
16. Pittsburgh, PA: $28,408
17. Dallas, TX: $27,823
18. Vermont: $27,333
19. Hawaii: $26,722
20. Austin/San Antonio, TX: $26,329

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Illinois Department of Public Health Statistics – 2009

http://www.idph.state.il.us/health/bdmd/marr00_09.htm

Number of Marriages in Will County, Illinois = 2,653

Number of Marriages In All of Illinois = 72,821

So, all YOU COUPLES LOOKING TO GET MARRIED, be lucky that Jack McGuire wasn't the deciding vote on this issue... Because JACK WOULD HAVE AFFECTED 70,000+ WEDDINGS EACH YEAR / 2000+ EACH YEAR ALONE IN WILL COUNTY, with this Trans Fat Bill!  At an average of $540 (or more) per each wedding cake, how does an extra 10-20% being tacked on sound to you?  Aren't weddings expensive enough already?  And... How would your wedding cake look all FLAT AND MELTED?

For these reasons and many reasons more, we say Vote Jack McGuire Out in 2012!