With outside business-backed groups such as Common Ground Collective and One Future Illinois already gearing up to oppose progressive proposals, Jack Lavin, president of the Chicagoland Chamber of Commerce, said the defeat of Bring Chicago Home and Gov. JB Pritzker’s graduated income tax shows that the broader business community “is better positioned” to win the messaging battle with the public. “I also think taxpayers in general are tired of the constant increase in taxes and (thinking), ‘What are we getting out of it?’” he said.
Dynamite must read article. All of these “progressive” think tank elites, like The Institute For The Public Good want to try and apply progressive tax ideas form very expensive cost of living, very small and very white cities like Seattle and Boston to a bankrupt Chicago. Those cities have no “working class”, maybe a small ‘welfare class”, because they can’t afford the upper-income progressive politics.
A largely unasked question is becoming glaring: Is Illinois doing all it should to use artificial intelligence to make government cost less and work better? So far, the evidence says no.
Dynamite must read article. All of these “progressive” think tank elites, like The Institute For The Public Good want to try and apply progressive tax ideas form very expensive cost of living, very small and very white cities like Seattle and Boston to a bankrupt Chicago. Those cities have no “working class”, maybe a small ‘welfare class”, because they can’t afford the upper-income progressive politics.