https://www.wsj.com/articles/chicago...tform-95c775c7

Well, that didn’t take long. Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson was inaugurated last week, and two days later his allies released a report with their agenda for the next four years. Title: “First We Get the Money.”
They mean your money. The report offers a flavor of the trend in Chicago politics and why the once-great city is struggling.

The report says a mere $12 billion in new spending will “make Chicago truly safe” by “addressing issues that underlie crime and poverty.” To get the cash, the mayor should collect $6.8 billion by “making the wealthy and corporations pay what they owe” and then cut spending on the Chicago Police Department.

Mr. Johnson has tried to distance himself from the report, but one gets the sense this is part of the choreography. The report’s creators, Action Center on Race & the Economy (Acre) and the People’s Unity Platform, helped Mr. Johnson win. Co-author Saqib Bhatti is on his transition team. Chicago Teachers Union President Stacy Davis Gates is on the Acre board.
The report suggests Mr. Johnson reinstate a “head tax” on business of $33 per employee. Chicago’s previous head tax of $4 per employee was ended in 2014 by the City Council under Mayor Rahm Emanuel, who called it a “job killer” and a deterrent to business hiring.

The mayor is also urged to raise the real-estate transfer tax on sales over $1 million by 1.9 percentage points from the current 0.75%. Progressives say most of the funds would come from “skyscrapers” and commercial properties. The Windy City has plenty of $1 million homeowners and it already has the second highest tax rates in the country on commercial properties worth $1 million, according to the Lincoln Institute of Land Policy.
Landlords with luxury apartments that are vacant should pay a fee to “encourage” them to “charge more affordable rents.” The authors want to raise the tax on jet fuel to force airlines to pay for “profiting from creating pollution in our city.” Then add a financial transactions tax for a cut of every trade at the Chicago Board of Trade and the Chicago Board Options Exchange.

The authors also want Illinois to change state law to allow a “tax on the financial and business assets of the 10% wealthiest Chicagoans.” Households making over $100,000 a year would be hit by a new 3.5% income tax.
The Johnson backers also want him to “divest from policing and surveillance” and get rid of the police gang database in favor of a “Peace Book” that would inform communities about “peacekeepers, violence interrupters, mediators, circle-keepers, and restorative justice practitioners.”

As for the CPD, the mayor should “eliminate the 1,000 vacant police positions” and “commit to cutting from the police department budget before cutting other services.” If Mr. Johnson “continues to slash the policing budget by 9% per year in each of their next four years,” they write, “this would free up $538 million per year by 2027.”

That’s assuming anyone still lives in Chicago. The city lost 81,000 people from mid-2020 to mid-2022, according to the latest Census numbers. The mayor’s pals say a “city budget is a moral document.” Readers can decide what kind of morality lets criminal gangs run wild while shrinking the police force and chasing taxpayers out of the city.




RIP

None of those proposals make sense, also, how can you tax the **** out of all these corporations and big business, and those making money, if they leave?

Then you want to gut the police department, which will lead to an even bigger crime surge??? Yeah, I'm sure those "Peacekeepers" will stop those Youths from misbehaving.....

Remember those Escape From action movies? Should make a 3.0.

Escape from Chicago

this will happen all over the country until people grow the balls to call a spade a spade, but first we must take back the media

you cant teach a monkey physics

and you cant put an 80iq retard in charge of a city

Astronaut graduated to Mission Control. Your money is safe with him.

The only business that will be left in Chicago will be the horn factory.

Honk Honk

Cutting the police budget works for me...I wanna see wealthy/upper middle class whitey ripped from their homes and dragged out of their cars.

The Bears are leaving the city, people moving away by the thousands, Chicago will be Detroit 2.0 by the time the next election comes around

This will have the desired results...

All of the people smart enough to see it, will have moved out by the next election - leaving only the idiots to vote & the fun will accelerate!

America No 1.

Just don't mention the part about large portions of it being literally 3rd world.

This mayors plan will just accelerate the decline, cause business being taxed out the ass will just get up and leave, further eroding tax income and jobs.

You get what you deserve.

Keep voting democrat, and expect more of this.

Democrats always think they can tax their way out of bad economic situations.

Sounds like more people from Illinois will be moving to freer, lower taxed Texas and Florida soon.

You non Chicago area brahs have no idea how bad this is gonna get.

A friend of mine may work as a cop in city and said the new mayors home is such a chithole they had to have landscaping mow the lawn before the media got there last week.

The new mayor is an ultimate baby as well, he seems to blame everyone but himself. It's very pathetic. Also said "let's not demonize them!"

Lmao ok Brandon.

And last but not least, he spoke about this book called black labor and white wealth. Funny thing is if this moron knew anything about Chicago history, he'd know the neighborhoods on the south and west side were built mostly by Swedish, Italian and Irish immigrants:

Dudes a potato

Here's this moderator calling him out on it and he's literally in denial , I know why he got elected but listen to his mindless excuses

Tax white people and give it to black people.... who the slaves now.

"First We Get The Money"

Lol they elected a commie.

And if you look at the vote by neighborhood all the lakefront liberal millionaires voted for him too!

mind=blown

White suburbia and rich moms are a threat to our republic!

Probably because they HAD to vote for the commie



Little do they know that despite them voting for a black mayor they would still get pummeled by the black community



It's almost like the Chicago white liberal is being held hostage by their own doing

I hope your worthless azz is laid off.

LOLOL at quoting 'Scarface' for their plan name.
hoooooonk!!!!

Sounds like it was written by children, unaware of unintended consequences. Every detail is a laughable disaster. 81,000 net loss of people from 2020 to 2022? Those are rookie numbers if these retarded progressives get a fraction of what they want. I say do it. I want to read how the city is losing 100K people every year. Come on progressives and race baiters, I think you can get Chicago under 2 million people for the next Census if you try hard enough.

Shots fired as north ave beach.


LOL!!!!! Again, never saw that before when I used to go every weekend

What's funny about when he talks about taxing people, is that he's only the mayor of the actual city of Chicago but not the greater metro area. I don't think the wealthy people there live in actual "chicago", they live in the suburbs. Also, I'm not sure he has that kind of political power but depends on how the state is set up.

Atlanta Mayor a while back (forgot which one) tried to propose some bill where he counted on the taxes coming from the greater area and found out that he couldn't tax people in the surrounding counties and cities. Shows you what kind of brains you need to be a Mayor.

You seem upset.

Is there a lot of OT on the schedule, for the foreseeable future?

Memorial Day weekend is canceled and extended, Father's Day and Junteenth is canceled RDO'S, and pretty much the end of June till July 7th is canceled RDO'S plus possible tour extensions due to Nascar coming to Chicago, and of course 4th of July.

They never think that far. These are the same people who encourage stealing then are shocked when businesses close.

They're as dumb as they are corrupt and immoral.

he wants to put a tax on anyone who commutes to the city for work.

The dude is a literal potato

"Just hire more social workers to deal with the crime, lol checkmate bigots"

Love this for this once-great American city. Keep voting Democrat - you get what you deserve.