Chicago's progressive mayor refuses to answer THREE times when asked if he'll raise city's taxes to help pay for the migrant crisis

Daily Mail ^ | 1/13/24 | Alex Hammer

[Libloather]

Brandon Johnson has refused to state whether he'll raise his city's taxes to pay for the migrant crisis - despite being asked three times in a new interview.

The Windy City's mayor made the comments - or lack thereof - during a sitdown with CBS 2's Sabrina Franza Thursday, where talks hovered around the yearly task of setting a city budget.

The discussion, however, quickly turned to his predecessors' pledge to house arriving asylum seekers - a promise he has vowed to continue, after an estimated 20,000 entered Chicago last year alone.

As the two spoke, more than 500 migrants were waiting to be placed in one of the 27 temporary shelters the city has set out for them, with roughly 200 staying in warming buses at the city's landing zone.

With those facilities now packed - and busses arriving from states like Texas on the daily - Franza asked the ex-teacher who succeeded Lori Lightfoot about the city's future financial response.

'Will you be adding a tax to help pay for this?' Franza asked, as officials have already spent $138 million on a crisis that is expected to worsen as temps drop.

'Well, I think people are clearly familiar with what my vision is for revenue in this city, and my revenue, of course, is committed to making sure that we are doing everything we can to address the unhoused crisis in this city,' Johnson, 47, said.

He continued: '70,000 people who are unhoused in this city are black families, and that’s why I invested a quarter of a billion dollars in my budget to do just that.'

The response seemed to stump Franza, spurring her to ask the tax question again.

But Johnson - a man brought up in a suburb of Cook County - continued to deflect...

[Lurker]

“The mayor can raise taxes all by hisself?”

I’ve lived in the Chicago area for 40 years and I honestly can’t remember a single time something the Mayor wanted got shot down by the City Council. If he asks for a tax increase he’ll get it, residents and public opinion be damned.

L

[Worldtraveler once upon a time]

--- "I would bet the CME, NYSE, and NASDAQ have disaster recovery sites in red states that would allow them to move in 24-48 hours without an issue, make the move over a weekend and the public would never know the difference."

Thanks for that. I would make a similar wager to yours. The foolishness in the moment seems to be that the Lefty world thinks the citizenry is a cow to be milked dry.

For me, this is why the Davos set is busy worrying themselves with the greatest threat -- "disinformation" -- because information can be verified in so many ways. "Big money" -- whatever one may think of it -- will always refuse to be "harvested" by the ideologues who want to feast for free.

Best wishes, and thanks for adding information to the whole conversation.

[FlingWingFlyer]

Another Let’s Go Brandon! FJB.