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Delivering on Johnson’s promise to challenge businesses to “put more skin in the game” will likely mean a revived, dramatically enhanced and rebranded version of the $4-a-month-per-employee head tax despised by business leaders as a “job killer.” When Rahm Emanuel eliminated the head tax in 2013, it was generating roughly $20 million annually from more than 2,000 companies.
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The head tax was just replaced by an e911 tax on cell phones
So not willingly agreeing to pay even more in taxes is akin to not putting skin in the game. Let me think that one over.
I wonder if the head tax would apply to Chicago Public Schools as they are one of the largest employers in the city?
So you want them to tax for each CPS hire? Ok. We will tax CPS 1 billion dollars per employee hired. We will then take that 1 billion collected for each CPS employee and now send that money to CPS so they can pay the head tax. 1 billion not enough? Let’s make it a trillion and see if that does the trick.
No, they won’t be adding a head tax to CPS.
Stupid is as stupid does. Put in a head tax ….lose businesses