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Posted on 12/03/2016 9:24:36 AM PST by blackbetty59
Mayor Rahm Emanuel on Friday kept up his postelection push to position himself as a protector of immigrants against President-elect Donald Trump, announcing the creation of a $1 million "legal protection fund" to help those fighting possible deportation.
The fund was created in partnership with the National Immigrant Justice Center to "provide immediate legal information, screenings, consultations and representation to individuals who may be at risk for deportation," according to a news release from Emanuel's office.
The money will come from the $20 million the city set aside for Emanuel's property tax rebate program, according to city spokeswoman Jennifer Martinez.
(Excerpt) Read more at chicagotribune.com ...
Rahm Emanuel announce the illegal creation of the illegal immigrant legal protection fund.
Maybe he should divert it to purchase bullet proof vests instead.
Rahm knows he can’t stay in power without the illegal vote.
Using public money for the criminal defense for those not entitled to justice. Does that sound right?
Or do illegal aliens each get a fair trial prior to deportation?
If allowed, a very poor precedent.
Chicago is teetering on bankruptcy.
Liberals are insane.
Jail time for any elected official who harbors criminals.
Well, that’s nice. Meanwhile, get behind on your property taxes, and they put a lien on your house. And maybe eventually schedule a sheriff’s sale.
But hey, someone’s gotta pay for this new fund, right?
The overabundance of money keeps Democrats busy think up how to spend all of their surplus funds. If I recall correctly, a person who won the Powerball® lottery was given IOUs because they were short funded. Also legislators had to sue the comptroller of the state to get paid.
Taxpayer money spent to undermine US laws? Do citizens get to opt out? Do they all get blood on their hands when one of Emanuel’s illegal aliens kills an American citizen?
With all the trouble that Rahm Emanuel has been having in Chicago lately, specifically with unrest surrounding his police department and other scandals, it’s easy to forget that he’s dealing with another serious problem: his city is nearly bankrupt. As with so many other large, Democrat run municipalities, the chief culprit here is the massively underfunded pension system for municipal workers. Their unions negotiated some real sweetheart deals for them over the years, but the costs were completely unsustainable. When the city began to go broke, no real compromise was ever offered by the unions so Rahm is left to find some way to shore up the funds.
No problem, kids! Hizzoner will simply jack up the utility rates and let the taxpayers foot the bill even more. (reported Chicago Tribune)
Mayor Rahm Emanuel will propose a new utility tax on Chicagoans’ water and sewer bills in an effort to shore up the largest of the city’s ailing pension funds, according to multiple sources who were briefed on the plan Wednesday.
Under Emanuel’s plan, the tax would be phased in over the next four years, with the average homeowners’ bill increasing $50 each year until it reaches $200 in the fourth year, said Ald. Ameya Pawar, 47th, who was briefed on the plan Wednesday morning. The average Chicago homeowner’s water and sewer bill is $114.30, billed every other month, city officials have said.
You may be wondering why he didn’t simply increase property taxes to cover the pension funds. The answer is that he’s already raised them considerably and his elected officials in the city are getting nervous about being run out of town on a rail if they keep increasing the burden in that fashion. But for middle and lower income residents of an already poverty ridden city, jacking up their water bill by 200 dollars may be a bit much to swallow as well.
What makes this even more of a stereotypical Democrat move is the distinctly non-progressive nature of this plan. At least when you increase the property taxes the wealthy tend to pay a bit more. (I believe Democrats refer to that as “their fair share.”) But the utility bills tend to hit everyone pretty much equally, so the city’s poorest residents will feel the pinch the most. In the end, that’s how these things always seem to work. But more than anything else, this should have been a wake-up call similar to what we thought might happen in Detroit when they were dealing with the same issues.
The era of massive pension plans for unionized government workers has led to a case of killing the goose that lays the golden eggs. But rather than acknowledging this reality, the unions just continue to push back, demanding every penny they can soak out of the system until it collapses under its own weight.
But hey… you just keep on electing those Democrats, guys. I’m sure it will all work out wonderfully in the end.
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These pathetic Dumbocrats slay me.
ITEM---Sap-Happy liberals like Rahm made dam sure they n-e-v-e-r run out of tax dollars to fund sanctuary cities, welfare and food stamps, education and healthcare, endless SS payments and EITC checks for these parasitic immigrants. All of them on our soil illegally....money-guzzling creeps who never put a dime into the system.
ITEM---Sap-happy Liberals made dam sure there are on-the-book govt mandates that force struggling taxpayers to foot the bill for illegal refugees here to go back and forth between America and their supposedly hostile homelands on the taxpayers' dime.
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And isn't it strange (smirk)?
Sap-Happy liberals types like Rahm are the first to whine they're running out of SS money for working Americans who put in money for years.....
The first to whine they're running out of pension money aging working Americans put in for years.
The first to whine they're running out of Medicare money aging working Americans put in for years.
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Rahm is so helpful and enamored of illegals, betcha they are just dying to subsidize this govt parasite Rahm.
(Smirk) Illegals must be dying to pay for Rahm's multiple pensions, perks, humongous salary, healthcare, his living costs, credit cards, expense accounts.....all the expenses struggling taxpayers have been ripped off for by this parasite.
Chicago taxpayers should be Mad As Hell over this.
Chicago taxpayers should sue and swear out a criminal complaint for misappropriation of funds.
Tax rebate program, huh. Has he not seen the abandoned properties in Chicago? Is he sure the $$$$ isn’t coming from the rest of us through obamy?
ANALYSIS Emanuel may also be in violation,and subject to prosecution, under several other laws.
If his actions affect interstate commerce and trade, he could be prosecuted under the Hobbs Act. The Hobbs Act 18 U.S. Code § 1951, passed in 1946, is a federal law that prohibits robbery or extortion, or attempted robbery or extortion, that affects interstate or foreign commerce. The Act originally was designed to target racketeering in labor-management disputes that were common at the time.
More recently the Hobbs Act has been used to prosecute and jail politicians involved in activities that impair an area's economic viability.
Nice!. With taxpayer money!!!. How about funding the CPD to hire more cops to end the massacre being done in the streets. Boy,people are certainly affected by The STUPID!!!
Scum sucking libtard Rahm can’t keep his citizens ALIVE but he can waste money on this.....
Emanuel announces immigration legal fund,---AKA as a lawyer/Democrat party slush fund.---Chicago is doing so well with their finances, pensions, education shortfalls, etc., that they can now divert taxpayer money, put aside to help taxpayers, to help keep their illegal immigrant population from being deported.
No matter how hard they try or how much money they throw at it they can't legalize illegals at the city or state level.
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