OT: Chicago is back baby

Papi_Chulo
Miami, FL (or the nearest big-booty club)
"‘First We Get The Money’: Chicago’s New Mayor Linked To Wild Budget Proposal That Attacks Businesses And Cops"

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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Papi_Chulo
2 years ago
“… 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. …”

Awesome plan – that should be a godsend for the black-and-brown people of Chicago
Tetradon
2 years ago
The left sees businesses and rich people as a resource to be strip mined to fund their social engineering. The old saying is true, money goes where it's treated well.

Shit-cago is on its way to becoming Detroit with worse strip clubs.
Muddy
2 years ago
Caterpillar, Boeing, Citadel, Tyson have left, soon Mcdonalds and anybody who cares about their families safety have left, who's left to tax?
Papi_Chulo
2 years ago
This is the issue w/ many of these blue-cities – they get rid of an incompetent politician (Lori Lightfoot); and replace her w/ socialist-whackjob
ilbbaicnl
2 years ago
Trump is "linked to" evangelicals, most of who would probably want to close all strip clubs in the US. But, since Trump hasn't tried to do that, it's not really significant.

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.
shailynn
2 years ago
The only state that is envious of Illinois taxes is California.
docsavage
2 years ago
The leftist voters in these big cities also vote in state elections and are tilting their whole states to the left. People are voting with their feet and moving out of blue states like Illinois, California and New York and moving to red states like Florida and Texas.

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.
Tetradon
2 years ago
"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."

@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.
Studme53
2 years ago
Lol - give the people what they want/voted for.

A couples years from now, when things are even worse, the media will cluelessly ask, “What happened to Chicago?!”
Brahma2k
2 years ago
"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."

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.
ilbbaicnl
2 years ago
Well-off people in Chicago don't have a special responsibility to poor people in Chicago. Municipalities with a lot of poor people (increasing the cost of law enforcement, among other things) should get $ help from nationally-collected taxes. Money always comes with strings attached. So this approach, done right, would force the Chicago government to be less inefficient/corrupt/stupid.
skibum609
2 years ago
Once religion and marriage began to disappear from the United States, any chance of reducing crime also began to disappear. This nation has no chance of long-term survival. None. Heed the words of Alexander Fraser Tytler, Scottish author and academic: "A democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of government. It can only exist until the voters discover they can vote themselves largesse from the public treasury".
Elitis
2 years ago
Having been born there and having spent roughly half of my childhood there, I really do hate to see (more of) this happening there. Although, on the other hand, the good areas (i.e north. Lincoln Park area, loop, etc) are still pretty good.
Muddy
2 years ago
The sooner Chicago gets driven to Chapter 9, the better. That would mean undoing a lot of sweet deals that folks thought they had in the bag. Brandon Johnson is looking to take them there at warp speed.
ilbbaicnl
2 years ago
Chicago's having repeated riots in the previously more peaceful areas for family outings and nightlife. Expected to get worse as the weather gets warmer. US cites, to one degree or another, are overwhelmed by organized crime. People go with the winners, especially impressionable young people with limited opportunities. Police and the right want to "solve" this by (unconstitutionally) making poor neighborhoods (and those they think belong in them) live under something resembling martial law. The left wants to reform everyone, including the psycho/sociopaths who lead organized crime. The solution is to come down hard on the leaders, make sure they do hard time, don't get to simply become shot callers in prison. And also do things like raise the minimum wage, provide good schools, provide occupational training like they do in Germany.
gammanu95
2 years ago
I am from Chicago. I loved Chicago. I miss the Chicago I grew up in. I have not been there since a family funeral in 2012. Even then, the visit (apart from the death) had it's highs and lows.

It will always be sweet home Chicago, but it is also true that you can't go home again.
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