We know nothing about author Stefan Molyneux, and the video is a little over the top in parts, but this sure hurts to watch. He got the facts and numbers right. The last two minutes are particularly good: If Chicago really loved its kids, he says, it wouldn’t put up with the debt, the unions, etc.

Comment: Surprised it took so long. The unions will win. Doesn’t matter much anyway because the reform law would not have accomplished much.

At the Wieners Circle in Lincoln Park,  the restaurant’s total tax bill would climb about $3,197 after the increase is phased in over four years, equivalent to 750  sandwiches. “That’s a lot of hot dogs,” says the owner. At 155 N. Wacker Drive taxes would leap nearly $2.2 million, to more than $14.3 million, Crain’s estimates. Taxes would shoot up to $12.44 a square foot from $10.54 at the nearly 1.2 million-square-foot building. That’s the equivalent of nearly 5,500 hours of work for the consultancies and law firms that occupy the structure, assuming an hourly rate of $400. On the

Comment: Wages are too low, so just outlaw that. Simple.

The question for Chicago’s philanthropic sector may be, do Chicago’s philanthropic leaders have a strategy in mind for what foundations could and should do in case the mayor and the aldermen show up to ask the tax-exempt sector for Detroit-like emergency help?

The South Side of Chicago has had a reputation for being gritty and crime-infested, but many of its neighborhoods are evolving into vibrant communities that are drawing people from the usual attractions downtown. “The whole South Side gets labeled as the dangerous section of the city and that’s just not the case.” Comment: Dat’s duh troot.

“I have tuition to pay and casinos to visit. (:,” Byrd-Bennett wrote in an email when talking about the plans, according to the indictment. Full text of the indictment linked here. Comment: Just another chapter in the prevailing culture in our political establishment. That culture that must be eradicated and its leadership exterminated.

Hillary Clinton is gambling that your memory is so short-term, that you won’t remember the Chicago fundraising dinner thrown for her earlier this summer by Chopper Trading founder Rajiv Fernando. Be certain. Be appeased. High-five yourselves, just like Clinton and Emanuel always do. There will be no trading tax imposed on high speed trading firms.