The Chicago Tribune today endorsed Commissioner Peraica’s plan to fully repeal the sales tax increase:

Oddly, Stroger’s bitsy rollback proposal is one of three competing tax-cut plans: County Board member Tony Peraica wants to kill the full increase this year. And four other board members propose eliminating the entire increase over four years: The four are Larry Suffredin, Forrest Claypool, Tim Schneider and Bridget Gainer, a board newcomer we’re pleased to see as a sponsor.

We prefer the Peraica plan. Saving taxpayers close to $400 million in 2010 would force the long-overdue economies that Stroger has promised but failed to deliver.