Progressive Chicago aldermen to introduce amendments to Mayor Lori Lightfoot’s proposed budget – Chicago Tribune*

The aldermen's proposed $16-per-employee-per-month tax would apply only to logistics operations with more than 50 employees. That would hit Target, Walmart and the recently opened Amazon delivery warehouse in the Far South Side’s Pullman neighborhood.
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Platinum Goose
5 years ago

What about all us office workers why not us too. My guess is they’re waiting for us to get back to work before they propose a head tax on office workers. This pandemic was good practice for remote working. Our company can easily make working from home permanent.

Fed up neighbor
5 years ago
Reply to  Platinum Goose

That’s correct these morons in Chicago just don’t get it, companies have and can easily adapt to work from home procedures. My brother is a perfect example of work from home and he loves it. Chicago is going to be a ghost town along with the rest of the state.

Last edited 5 years ago by Fed up neighbor
Bob Out of Here
5 years ago
Reply to  Platinum Goose

If you can work from home you can work from a taxpayer friendly state like Indiana too.

Lyn P
5 years ago
Reply to  Platinum Goose

Not that it would come as a shock, and not a local proposal – yet – but the notion of a work-at-home tax is out there.

Basis?? Home workers are not supporting the infrastructure “put there” by municipalities for office building, transport, etc.

Progressive killing off of Average Joe knows no shame.

Joey Zamboni
5 years ago

Brilliant…!

Drive more tax paying businesses out of Chicago & likely IL….

nixit
5 years ago

So a split-roll employee head tax: the gateway drug to reinstating the head tax for everyone.

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