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Posted on 04/25/2025 5:51:25 AM PDT by ChicagoConservative27
During an interview with WVON on Thursday, Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson said “the fluctuations of the market and Trump’s tariffs” have resulted in massive losses to the city “just because of the uncertainty and the chaos.” And also stated that he wants to raise taxes by imposing a financial transaction tax and expressed openness to a corporate head tax and stated that those things, along with lots of other ideas, would put “the burden on the very people that Donald Trump is trying to protect.”
While discussing the city’s budget, [relevant remarks begin around 5:35] Johnson said that the budget mainly has issues due to the cost of pensions, “and then finally, in the past few weeks, with the fluctuations of the market and Trump’s tariffs, that has already cost the fund about a billion dollars just because of the uncertainty and the chaos.”
Later, [relevant remarks begin around 22:20] Johnson said, “[T]hat is something that I do support, a progressive income tax, a financial transaction tax, there’s a corporate head tax, there [are] a lot of things that we can do that [place] the burden on the very people that Donald Trump is trying to protect.
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Democrat Talking Point #1: Trump’s tariffs are a tax on the American people. Ordinary people won’t have enough money to buy everyday goods if tariffs make things more expensive.
Democrat Talking Point #2: The solution to this is to raise taxes on the American people.
People will fall for that
Thieves ALL.
Yep. And it really doesn’t matter what Democrat Talking Point #1 is. It could be literally anything.
Talking Point #2 is always the same. Raise taxes.
LOL! Let’s Go Brandon
Of course, none of this has to do with the tariffs. The COVID money tree is dead.
BINGO
Stolen elections have consequences.
Chicago, you need to do two things...
Secure your damned elections.
And stop allowing Deep State to select your candidates for you.
Not just CoupFlu money.
IL gets more money from federal taxpayers than it does from property taxes...
Do it Johnson. The Chicongoans don’t care. They love taxes.
Rember #3: Blame Trump for the increases.
It won’t hurt President Trump, Chicongoans don’t vote for Republicans anyway. They vote for morons like you.
Yes! I want you to, too! Raise Chicago taxes to half of voters' income. For the children. For the homeless. Raise 'em high!
In time, individual wallets will figure out that government operates a fiscal confiscation operation. Until they figure that out, raise 'em high!
“Talking Point #2 is always the same. Raise taxes.”
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It’s their “solution” to everything. Throw more and more money at problems that are fundamentally caused by their own ineptness and corruption.
It’s not looking like Chicago will ever figure that out. The city seems to be stuck on stupid.
I call bullcrap on this statement. He just wants to blame Trump for having to raise taxes to keep the graft coming in to the political coffers. I dare him to detail how tariffs have already "caused massive losses to the city" when no one knows the exact nature of the tariffs. Pure BS.
“And also stated that he wants to raise taxes by imposing a financial transaction tax and expressed openness to a corporate head tax…..
The CBOE will be gone in a heartbeat. They’ve already got contingency plans for just this kind of stupidity.
L
Tell me again why voting for ANY democrat is a good thing...?
“Sun rises in the East. I want to raise taxes!”
Said every demonrat everywhere, always.
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