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Should the CME leave Chicago, that would be the final nail in the city's coffin.

The new mayor's proposed taxes in his "First We Take the Money" plan, will cause every business in Chicago to look seriously at leaving the city. Many will start now in making plans to do so. Those that do not move should start making plans to close and file bankruptcy instead.

1 posted on 05/21/2023 12:26:48 PM PDT by CFW
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The new mayor is living in the wrong era.


2 posted on 05/21/2023 12:33:45 PM PDT by chopperk
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Make Chicago Detroit 👍


3 posted on 05/21/2023 12:36:40 PM PDT by JonPreston ( ✌ ☮️ )
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4 posted on 05/21/2023 12:37:43 PM PDT by MtnClimber (For photos of Colorado scenery and wildlife, click on my screen name for my FR home page.)
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2010 - R.I.P.: Al Gore’s Chicago Climate Exchange Has Died

https://www.nationalreview.com/planet-gore/rip-al-gores-chicago-climate-exchange-has-died-greg-pollowitz/


8 posted on 05/21/2023 12:48:35 PM PDT by Libloather (Why do climate change hoax deniers live in mansions on the beach?)
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The Dems chose badly. Most likely chosing a black man over someone who wasn’t black, as though that should have mattered. Oh well, reap what you sow.
If Mayor Johnson is really bad, expect to see Mayor Lightfoot peep out from under her rock to see if “Miss Me Yet?” applies. I think she really expected to be re-elected and still hasn’t figured out why it ‘wasn’t allowed’ to happen.


9 posted on 05/21/2023 12:48:38 PM PDT by lee martell
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He’s(the mayor) proposed new taxes worth about $800 million, including a financial transactions tax that would make it impossible for CME to do business in Chicago.

So let's drive all businesses out of Chicago. That will really help the city! Then he will cry 'white flight'!

10 posted on 05/21/2023 12:49:06 PM PDT by Rummyfan (In any war between the civilized man and the savage, support the civilized of man.)
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There really isn’t much reason for Chicago to exist anymore, is there? It’s still a regional rail and air hub, but pretty much everything else can move to cheaper, safer, and more honest places.


11 posted on 05/21/2023 12:51:07 PM PDT by VanShuyten ("...that all the donkeys were dead. I know nothing as to the fate of the less valuable animals)
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He’s a Marxist, of course he’s bad for business.


12 posted on 05/21/2023 12:51:40 PM PDT by popdonnelly (All the enormous crimes in history have been committed by governments.)
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(Chicago’s new Mayor Brandon Johnson is already bad for business)

Let’s go Brandon!!!

😜😜😜😂😂

Keep voting Democrats in, idiots!

Maybe it will work the next time.

Or the time after that.

Or the time after that.

Or..... never.

🙄🙄🙄


13 posted on 05/21/2023 12:52:42 PM PDT by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold ......)
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The left never throws one of their own under the bus unless they have someone worse to replace them with.


15 posted on 05/21/2023 12:55:55 PM PDT by metmom (...fixing our eyes on Jesus, the Author and Perfecter of our faith….)
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I predict Johnson will go ahead with his plan, regardless of the consequences. Why? Because he is the tool of the Chicago Teachers Union. The CTU is a bunch of Marxists who could not care less about Chicago or their students. They are just interested in power and getting their way, even if that means turning Chicago into Detroit — or worse.


18 posted on 05/21/2023 12:58:59 PM PDT by rbg81
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Brandon Johnson is a captive of public sector unions.

And now that they have their puppet in charge of the city, they can really exploit their total monopoly on government and law-making


22 posted on 05/21/2023 1:12:25 PM PDT by PGR88
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Hey, it's only a $1 per transaction tax, and businesses never pay taxes, right? They just add the cost on to the customers. And it's not like the customers can go someplace else, after all.

Besides, the company has the word "Chicago" in the name. Think of all of the cost of replacing the stationery, etc.

ON THE OTHER HAND, if the Merc moves out of an urban area into more pleasant surroundings and better weather, why does "Wall Street" need to be located on Wall Street?

23 posted on 05/21/2023 1:13:40 PM PDT by Bernard (“the rights of man come not from the generosity of the state but from the hand of God." JFK 1-20-61)
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“First we get the money.”

https://acrecampaigns.org/research_post/first-we-get-the-money/

Any business leader that keeps their company in Chicago is guilty of malfeasance.


24 posted on 05/21/2023 1:15:47 PM PDT by House Atreides (I’m now ULTRA-MAGA. -PRO-MAX’)
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26 posted on 05/21/2023 1:22:55 PM PDT by MtnClimber (For photos of Colorado scenery and wildlife, click on my screen name for my FR home page.)
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Chicago voters: let’s replace Lightfoot with Johnson. Brilliant!


27 posted on 05/21/2023 1:29:35 PM PDT by windsorknot
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Da Burgh also:

https://www.post-gazette.com/opinion/insight/2023/05/21/sara-innamorato-allegheny-county-executive-bethany-hallam-mik-pappas/stories/202305210035


31 posted on 05/21/2023 1:46:44 PM PDT by ameribbean expat (The object of life is...to avoid finding oneself in the ranks of the insane. -Aurelius)
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Neighboring states - Wisconsin or Indiana should make proposal to build trading hub there Tell Chiraq and their taxes to f*ck off

Traders wont even have to move, just commute few miles over border


32 posted on 05/21/2023 1:52:09 PM PDT by njslim
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The company has rewritten the terms of its lease so it can leave the city if politicians pursue “ill-conceived” public policy.

So the CME is renting from itself?

35 posted on 05/21/2023 2:00:59 PM PDT by 17th Miss Regt ( )
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As a former Chicagoan I see reports of busing immigrants to NY, to Denver, to many cities...but never to Chicago. Is that because those doing the busing are concerned about crule and unusual punishment charges?


43 posted on 05/21/2023 3:32:18 PM PDT by spintreebob (ki .h g)
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