Posted on 04/07/2023 12:47:00 PM PDT by Libloather
Chicago's incoming liberal mayor has raised eyebrows by blaming the city's poverty problems and surging crime rates on businesses that don't pay tax.
Brandon Johnson, a former union organizer who was elected on Tuesday, said Chicago doesn't have money to solve its problem because '70 percent of large corporations in the state of Illinois don't pay a corporate tax'.
'It's that type of restraint on our budget that has caused the type if disinvestment that has led to poverty, of course that has led to violence,' said Johnson, who didn't give the source for his claim.
The 47-year-old Cook County commissioner beat candidate Paul Vallas, 69, who had the backing of Chicago's police union, by around 13,000 votes. Johnson will replace outgoing mayor Lori Lightfoot, who fell out of favor after crime surged under her watch.
Top of Johnson's agenda will be reversing the city's spiraling crime rate and dealing with out-of-control homelessness that's transformed part of O'Hare International Airport into a grubby makeshift shelter.
During the campaign, Johnson called for $80 million to be raised by taxing the wealthy. He has also called for a freeze in property taxes.
Speaking on Thursday, he told CBS: 'I'm not going to raise property taxes, that's been the lazy form of governance for a long time in the city of Chicago and quite frankly around the country.'
Following his election, Johnson recalled growing up in a poor family, teaching at a school in Cabrini Green, a notorious former public housing complex, and shielding his kids from gunfire in their west side neighborhood.
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"And the Band Played On...."
Time businesses get out of Chicago and other such cities. Maybe evacuate from states that have such cities.
Detroit is actually starting to turn things around. I would much rather be in Detroit than Chicago right now.
Sounds like the old “Hate Rich Whitie” mantra that will always get black votes! Only problem is when they start to believe the lie.
They told me I was wrong.
I wish I had been.
Chicago has turned into a cesspool.
Woo Hoo!
Let’s go Brandon! Finish the work Groot started!
Look at Jackson MS to see what happens to a city when it elects a radical black marxist as mayor. They can't even keep the water running there. They constantly beg for federal money then their relatives and cronies haul it out the back door as soon as it comes in the front.
Then they blame the nearest Republican for all their problems.
“ For those with thinking caps and reading skills.”
So that rules out the entire Chicago City Council, 70% of the Illinois State Legislature, and 85% of the Executive.
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“Liberal” mayor my fanny. Marxist mayor is on point and should be used. Let’s start calling a spade a spade.
Former Mayor Groot did us all a favor by exposing Obuma’s “army” as a paper tiger after Mexicans set up armed barricades and chased the BLM thugs back to their inner city ghettos in June, 2020.
I expect the new mayor will do something equally stupid to weaken the noodle-arm deep state.
I’ve been to Nepal, India, and Bangladesh. There is poverty there hard to imagine. But they would give you the last grain of rice even as a white western outsider and there was never any threat of violence or the least bit of concern for my safety. I wouldn’t think of going to any African s hole.
This guy sounds a lot dumber than Lightfoot TBH...
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