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Mayor Lori Lightfoot cast a dark vision of the city budget plan she will present to aldermen later this month, saying it might be the toughest vote City Council members will ever have to take because of its potential to disrupt workers' lives if she resorts to wide-scale layoffs or other labor cuts.
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Expect no retraction or apology. This what they do.
Let’s see that breakdown of cuts, eh? Oh, and perhaps she’ll throw in a sales tax increase and even a local income tax into the brew??
The chickens are coming home to roost Lori. You wanted the job, so start making the tough decisions. Your new nickname is going to be “One Term”. I guess it’s better than Beetlejuice.
No chance in Hell of any cuts. Nothing but hot air.
Raise taxes is what will happen. Destroy is the only thing government knows how to do.
It’s a start
Start cutting
Pull it
Or hire CIA paid “freedom fighters’ like Bin Laden to knock it down. Didn’t you see, Rambo III? LOL
So six months after killing the city economy with her illegal Wuhan Virus shutdowns she comes to the realization that perhaps she needs to make some cost cuts? Certainly she will cut whatever annoys the taxpayers the most. Her priority will be to cause the greatest amount of pain to the taxpaying citizenry in order to punish them for not wanting tax hikes.