OT: Chicago is back baby
Papi_Chulo
Miami, FL (or the nearest big-booty club)
Leftist allies of Chicago’s new Mayor Brandon Johnson have proposed a budget plan that would tax the rich and businesses, and would effectively defund police in a city already nearly crippled by crime.
The budget plan was proposed by ACRE, the Action Center on Race and the Economy, in conjunction with the People’s Unity Platform and is titled “$12 Billion for a Just Chicago.” The first page begins with step one of the plan: “First we get the money.”
ACRE touted the budget plan in a tweet claiming it would “reimagine everything in the city from policing to climate justice, housing & more.”
The budget plan calls for $12 billion in new taxes — which would reportedly come in part from reducing the Chicago Police Department budget ($1.94 billion in 2023) by 9%, or approximately $175 million. The city would also eliminate all current police department vacancies – which, in August of 2022, amounted to over 900 patrol officer vacancies and over 100 detective vacancies.
Corporations — or any business with at least 50 employees — would face a “head tax” of $33 per employee, which the report estimated would bring in $106 million in new revenue. Anyone making more than $100,000 would face an additional 3.5% income tax – totaling approximately $1.2 billion. The city’s top 10% of earners would also get hit with a .4% wealth tax – amounting to $960 million annually.
A real estate transfer tax on transactions of over $1 million — which the report states would generate $1.63 million in revenue — would be used to fund housing projects that the report claims would “eliminate homelessness.”
The plan also demanded that Chicago refuse to use any federal money to fund law enforcement or Wall Street interests, arguing that investing that money in public housing would contribute more to community safety.
The conclusion, according to ACRE, was that the city’s budget had to be approached from a morality standpoint – and that previous budgets had not done so to their satisfaction.
“A city budget is a moral document. A moral budget should reflect residents’ priorities and needs. The challenges Black and Brown communities in Chicago are facing today are a direct reflection of the immoral budgets that mayors and alderpeople have imposed on residents for decades,” the report stated, claiming that Chicago’s policing system had always been “racist” and had not contributed to safer communities.
https://www.dailywire.com/news/first-we-…
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Awesome plan – that should be a godsend for the black-and-brown people of Chicago
Shit-cago is on its way to becoming Detroit with worse strip clubs.
Did simply having lots of cops lead to effective handling of the mass murderer at Uvalde? Maintaining or increasing the PD budget won't necessarily reduce crime. I don't know what the answer is, but I know it isn't mindless finger pointing.
This could eventually lead to the breakup of the country. Don't think this can never happen. History is just a long succession of empires that declined and fell apart, most recently the Soviet Union. It's likely a group of states will get together and revolt, rather than just one state trying to secede. I work for the military and it's not ready to deal with an internal revolt. I'm too old for this myself and may soon retire, but a lot of the more competent employees might desert and join the rebels. That would leave a lot of incompetent affirmative action hires on the side of the central government. There is a great deal of dissatisfaction with the federal government in this country, as shown by Biden's dropping approval ratings in the polls.
@ilb, I don't know how you conclude the second part of this from the first. More police have been shown to reduce street crime in a million different studies.
A couples years from now, when things are even worse, the media will cluelessly ask, “What happened to Chicago?!”
What-about-ism at its finest. The illogical, desperate partisan argument: solution X isn’t perfect so what I want (politically) is just as good as your (much better) solution.
It will always be sweet home Chicago, but it is also true that you can't go home again.