Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson’s ally proposes fixing city’s budget woes with wealth tax

Washington Examiner ^ | March 7, 2024 5:09 pm | Annabella Rosciglione

[E. Pluribus Unum]

"I see you have some money there. Give it to me."

[mo]

The lack of money is not the problem here....

[No name given]

That’s Chicongo for you.

[No name given]

It’s the leadership that’s the problem.

[E. Pluribus Unum]

That’s Chicongo for you.

Communism 101: "What's yours is mine and what's mine is mine."

[Mark]

Taxing rich ALWAYS works!(//S)

[jimwatx]

They are desperate for money. NYC already has a city income tax for anybody working there. But if they try instituting a wealth tax watch how fast people move elsewhere.

[silverleaf]

There’s no wealthier clan of trust fund free riders than Illinois’ very own Governor Prtizker and family….surely they can dig deeper and help Chicongo find some loose change in their sofa cushions.

[M Kehoe]

I’m sure that will fix Chiraq.

5.56mm

[E. Pluribus Unum]

The City of St. Louis had a 1% income tax when I worked there thirty years ago. I am so glad I left.

[xp38]

Yeah that’ll work. /sarc

[Lee25]

Anyone who makes $100k or more

[Rummyfan]

Yes, drive more working people out of the city. That will work!

[Rummyfan]

Ken Griffin was previously Illinois’s richest man before he moved himself and his company, Citadel, to Florida.

Ken Griffin made a wise move.

[Rummyfan]

“We’re not going to put a big old advertisement board on the Sears Tower. … We’re not going to take away from the integrity of some of the greatest architectural designs in the world. But what we can do is be innovative,” Hall said.

And tax the rich is so innovative.

[Extremely Extreme Extremist]

How come the father and son Daley and even Rahm Emmanuel never had this problem? All three of them were POS Democrats and they still made the city run.

Blacks in positions of power simply lack the mental capacity to lead. They immediately steal from the treasury, pay off their boys, and then blame Whitey when things don't go their way.

No wonder why the suburbs were created. No one wants to live under the consequences of failed black politicians.

[Michael.SF.]

$100,000 a year does not make one rich.

[E. Pluribus Unum]

And tax the rich is so innovative.

Plank #2 of the Communist Manifesto: A heavy progressive or graduated income tax.

https://laissez-fairerepublic.com/TenPlanks.html

[KarlInOhio]

So Chicago doesn't already get that? In Ohio, both your work city and residence city can charge income tax. Most of the time your residence city will give you credit for your work city's tax, but not always. I have a 2.25% income tax at home. When I worked in a city with a 1.75% tax, that city got the 1.75% and my residence city got 0.5%.

[CFW]

Yeah, a wealth tax has always worked so well.

Notice that very few representatives will consider a way to spend LESS money. Instead they look to see where they can take more money from the people.