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Authors of the proposal, which also includes a tax on vacant high-end rental apartments, say they’re not fronting for Johnson and suggest they rather are trying to hold his feet to the fire and push him to stand by his campaign promises in a way they believe former Mayor Lori Lightfoot did not.
With $162 billion more from taxpayers, couldn’t you deliver a few bond upgrades, too
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.
Everybody needs a side hustle these days, and mine is Ukraine, where I am now.
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Obviously Ken Griffin was a visionary
First actions of new Mayor reveal his governance style:
1) Create three new “deputy mayor” executive staff divisions, creating dozens more payroll jobs for minions;
2) Attend virtue-signaling photo ops, smile big for the cameras, and wave!
Mayor Johnson will be figure-head mayor, polite way of saying Brandon is puppet of Preckwinkle, and governance will emanate from Cook County side of building.
Illinois taxpayers, bend over and grab your ankles!!
New taxes soon to be inserted by Mayor BJ and his masters the Illinois public sector unions!!
I like the idea of the city tax. Corporations will flee Chicago as soon as they can. This is the best thing to happen to the floundering Chicago office tower market. Imagine out of state remote workers finding out that they have to pay a 3.5% tax simply because their employer leases office space in Chicago. LOL
The suburban office market will love that.
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Come big economic depression for Chicago. Time for 50% unemployment, mass homelessness, long lines to community food banks and misery that matches the 1930s
Well, when all the big companies move out, I could probably be able to buy a skyscraper building on my social security check It’s either that or they will turn into piles of abandoned rubble.
Hmm, what’s a wealth tax? Has the USSA has arrived?
Isn’t this the same tax package he denied backing during the runoff?
So, where was Crain’s when the Marxists were making their power grab?
Crain’s might have been helping them plan the takeover
I respectfully disagree. Crain’s is much improved lately.
The great Communist Kleptocracy Commences