Groot's Newest Tax Plan
If only there was something that Groot could do to make herself even more unpopular....unpopular to the point that aldercreatures would actually start to vote against her, her policies and exercise a little self-preservation:
- They are planning on that tax on incomes above individual $70k per yearly combined 140k. Arguing over 4 or 6% off the [...] top before any deductions. Groot wants it in place by 2/1/2021. City is bleeding cash and she is desperate. Also planning a 20 % hike in water and sewer fees. Of course will not apply to Link card folks. In fact planning on giving certain zip codes a 50% reduction in those fees.
Great to have an inside link these days. Predict she will go ballistic if she reads this.
Yeah. That might finally do it.
And every aldercreature that votes with her needs to be removed also.
Where are the cuts?
Labels: city politics
posted by SCC at 12:01 AM
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Open the city up for business... quit screwing around with the idiotic lockdowns.
This tax increase will only hasten the exodus of productive citizens.
She is nuts.
Voters in Chicago asked for this.
They will get it. Good and hard.
I am afraid Chicago is done. It happened slowly, then all at once, to paraphrase Errol Flynn about bankruptcy.
Hope the pensions survive, they took my money for 31 years.
Groot is half way done with her term. Can’t wait to vote against her.
I noticed she’s not raising the sales tax, probably because there won’t be any stores open in Chicago in 2021 for people to buy things at.
Don’t do it Groot, Coppers will be looking to get even with the city. I can already see the medical section being increasingly busy in 2021. Covid-19 (2.0 strain).
Holy shit would she destroy Chicago if this craziness would happen! This would be the death nail in the heart of Chicago. This would cause mass exodus like no one has ever seen. This has to be a bad joke. Any aldermen that supports this would be finished. What is wrong with the nut job mayor? What should happen is her immediate removal by the aldermen before it’s too late.
No that is incredibly scary. Please don’t ever mention that again. If Lightfoot truly wanted to destroy Chicago this would be the way. It’s unthinkable. Chicago would die.
Oh yeah, let's tax the shit out of those white collar workers while their employers are starting to finally figure out--after being forced to do so by Democrat shutdowns--that remote work is viable. Brilliant!
This is nonsense. The city can't impose a city income tax without State approval and if there were an income tax any tax would have to be at the same rate for everyone or no taxes at all. Thankfully the "fair tax" amendment failed.
She's complete garbage
Fuck You Lori
Lightfoot is so horrible for Chicago it’s seems like some type of a fictional scary movie script about an accidental mayor that purposely tried to kill a major solid city. Hopefully this is a sick joke, but if not, then we may get our wish and everyone around her and the public will turn on her and demand she resigns or gets thrown out by the aldermen.
I'm so glad i dont have too many CPD friends for which I live in a town where i dont worry about city politics, taxes, let alone crime. But CPD pays me a decent salary. Reverse osmosis on my well water is good tasting and free.
remember komrades many onerous taxes are instituted to address a dire emergency. but once things return to normal, hahaha like that will ever happen, these taxes only grow larger. federal, state, now city and probably some day county income taxes on top of everything else thats taxed. funny the taxeaters are always exempt from the tax raises they cause. aoc the darling of the left wants 90% on the rich white eyes, you know those rich people making 70 k. 100 k is minimum wage to survive in this city having a decent house and 7 year old chevy. add to that the rush to get more kids into any school the ctu doest teach at and working people are barely making it. i watched these two fools, fat man and little boy announce more gimmee dats every day on their rona sky is falling pressers. where did they think the money would come from. evident distance is the only answer, and i hope you destroyers of worlds who move to tenn, texas and florida get put in stocks in the public square in your new hometown when you waddle in to your new polling place and ask for a democratic ballot. gtfo. its the only answer. FULL BIGLY
Ok, so if you are one of the few non union city workers, usually a mid management type, who will have to eat the five or more furlough days next year, and you are not getting the automatic raises like the union workers you supervise, and now she wants to cut your pay even more by this tax, well, hitting the retirement button come January 31, 2021 seems like your only p!ay. This is really insidious as it would fall only on city residents, and only city workers HAVE to live in the city.
Man, if recruiting new cops was hard before, nobody will want any city job once this goes through. Residency was to ensure there was a middle class in the city. Just watch as Skokie, Palos, Merrillville, DuPage all swell with middle class, noncity workers and city workers start quitting.
It's a death spiral for sure: she can't afford to have fewer workers putting into the funds, she can't afford to borrow at the rates the market would demand, and she has burned through cash by paying teachers and other workers to sit home at full pay for nine months! Thank goodness Jones Day isn't charging for its investigation into that SW scandal. Maybe Flessner just wanted to get out of the city before this hit!
Chicago is gonna be a post apolopytic mess.
Why do I live and work in this city? Seriously time to start making a change.
Wow - City will be decimated - make that annihilated if an income tax where to pass. I’d be the first one out - we have offices in the suburbs you stupid mother fu$@er.
How stupid can she be? Does Soros just drop off cash in envelopes to encourage stupidness like this proposal?
More taxes will solve everything.........and the band played on.
Living here under the authoritarian and draconian rule of the Democ-rats is like confronting that robber/burglar/rapist who terrorized you before. So what to do? Run, fight or annihilate, or give it up again.
Living here under the authoritarian and draconian rule of the Democ-rats is like confronting that robber/burglar/rapist who terrorized you before. So what to do? Run, fight or annihilate, or give it up again.
Yup... as I mentioned about my Latina wife’s Latino uncle who is an alderman was going in depth talking about this. You know I am culturally inclusive, mother was Mexican, dad was a war refugee from eastern Europe. If Groots needs cashola— someone’s gotta pay. However we can not expect shit in return but more shit. Don’t expect your children to learn anything but socialism and how a cop whipped a guy with a rubber hose back in the 1960s and 1970s
Groot why are you expecting us minorities to pay for this garbage when there should be cuts across the board.
Eventually every asshole no matter the income will be paying while getting nothing in return
....Soooo that means that we are finally getting a contract?????
Lightfart is really going after everyone's pocket, well not everyone (looking at you mutts that get intergenerational free rides) #defundchicagotaxpayers
“President-Elect Joe Biden is looking to provide foreign nationals in Mexico with better housing and coronavirus tests as they await their asylum hearings in the United States.
As Biden suggested he is satisfied with Congress allocating just $600 stimulus checks for each American out of a $900 billion coronavirus relief package, his advisers said he will push to fund better housing and coronavirus tests for foreign nationals in Mexico.” (Breitbart.com)
How can we pay for an increase in local taxes when Biden said he is going to raise federal taxes even before the election, which normally would have killed anyone’s chance for winning. Now Biden is going to be the innkeeper for more migrants into this country! If they leave their own country and seek asylum and that being Mexico they have to apply to Mexico for asylum. And let the Mexicans pay for their housing they are in their country.
They are going to raise our local taxes and our federal taxes. Joe forget being a scout for bringing more burdensome people into this country who we will have to pay for. Send that money to us the taxpayers because we are being squeezed to death by your Party.
But this is what these bastards do, take our tax money and then destroy our country with it. Who wants more migrants?
"Where are the cuts?"
The defunding of CPD, of course!
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4 OR 6% city income tax? A state income tax hike of 1 or 2% more? Are these people nuts? I'm retired and I'm sure somehow, these taxes will get me, too. These damn water bills are out of hand and of course, if you are a POC, somehow those evil white and rich folks will pay the extra. Yup, that'll work out just fine, tax the fuck out of the people that can afford to leave here the easiest. You sawed off, half wit with a fucked up haircut, kiss my ass. She's opening the floodgates of out migration. Damn, two house seats this census and two more next census. This isn't Kalifornia dummy, there isn't a massive silicone valley, which is packing up and leaving for Texas, BTW, here to sustain the rich population and the weather in Kalifornia is at least nice. The only thing Illinois has going for it is no state income tax on retirees. Pigster is sweating bullets trying to figure out how to get his hog claws into that.
Why do you think over the years they encouraged deferred comp. accounts. It’s their rainy day money for when they dip into, and run your finances for you to redistribute the wealth equitably.
Cuts are racist!
If they don't vote against her, then the Dark Deep state Cabal got their hooks into too far deep I don't see what would make them not vote against this. Vote Democrat if you're an idiot, for higher taxes+ higher crime and vote for these good old hoodtrash if you continue to plan on paying for life-time welfare recipient permeant victim class Section 8 folk/people.
-Angry Cop
Where are the cuts? How about the 600 cops that won't be replaced? Might as well cut them any arrest they might have made won't be backed up by the states attorney anyway.
The black gay female mayoral experiment hasn't worked out. Can we get a candidate in there based on their actual ability to run a city now?
WTF??? This Bitch is out of control...We need to make sure and print every alderSCUM that votes yes. It's about time that City Hall gets an Enema!!!
This is somewhat off topic, but why is it that if some subordinate city worker is involved is involved is some scandalous behavior, like the police officers in the botched raid on the innocent homeowner, they are immediately held to task after the act is made public, but when Mayor Lightfoot is found to have acted in a way that tarnishes the image of the city, she just says "sorry, I will do better" but she continues to retain her role as leader of the city? She forces heads of city agencies to resign or outright fires them, but she is not held to the same standard. I'm certain that I already know the answer, but I think many of the citizens have this same question Is she immune from being held responsible like any other public official? She makes an error in the keeping of the public trust and she thinks lip service is sufficient in absolving her her error, but anyone else has to be fired or demoted to show that action has been taken to assuage the situation. Inquiring minds want to know.
City income tax? That'll do it. You won't be able to rent a u-haul now.
If my late mom and dad ever made $140K a year they'd imagine living in Beverly Hills.
Nowadays it's difficult to believe that $140K, let alone $70K isn't a ton on money.
After taxes, routine bills/costs, house repairs, etc it's not a lot.
The thieving taxing pols now believe $140K or $70K a year is wealthy.
Being that it's Christmas I won't curse today.
Here I thought she only looked like an idiot!
We are the cuts
I hate it for you guys an gals up there. All I can say is move to Texas we need some good officers. From a fellow cop in Texas and a long time Reader of yalls blog,, what a mess up there.
There won’t be an alderman or city official left standing if a city income tax goes through.
She was raped by the teachers union during their contract negotiations, yet she will keep paying their pension contributions. She must have thought she was a “Biden Insider” and that he would ride to the rescue. Don’t see that happening anytime soon. Casino not even on the horizon. Businesses leaving the city by the score. Population fleeing as soon as rental trucks are available. High crime. Low performing schools. Didn’t take her long to leave her lasting legacy. Four more minutes of her is far too long.
I tried looking up "cut spending" in the Democrat Dictionary. It said "see Republicans" .
Detroit has a city income tax!
How did that work out for keeping people and folks in the city!
These politicians are beyond stupid and still giving away free stuff for votes!
It will never happen bet on it .
Water and sewer needs no increase. When they first instituted a water and sewer fee, the city could not burn the money fast enough. It really took them by surprise. They initially began to spread it around to other departments in direct violation of the collection rules. They built police stations with the money, like 16 and 17, but were not allowed to use it for anything else. The city then assumed responsibility for all private drains. Before, you were responsible for your sewer line all the way out into the street. If it caved in, you had to fix it, and you had to fix it now. They put hundreds of hillbilly contractors out of business on January 1st of that year, without ever hiring a single additional worker. It was a fucking joke trying to get morbidly obese sewer laborers who got used to doing nothing their whole lives to actually touch a shovel for the first time in their lives, in January. Ha! They revolted and purposely fucked up the first few jobs. It became obvious that that wasn't gonna work so the whole PDP program was started with a few contractors.
Then the whole meter program was instituted. During a financial crash when rank and file workers were required to furlough themselves for 30 days that year, the Water Dept hired new people and different people to install the meters. Their plan was to assemble whole areas on meters and then sell them off as commercial paper paying monthly dividends. Shot themselves in the foot with that one, as they just contributed to the aggregate mental retardation of the general population. Tribune reporters went on the radio to support such a progressive program aimed at rationing lake water because lake levels were dropping, because we are all scumbag polluters. Now the lake levels are so high they can't give the water away fast enough.
THEY ARE FARMING US!
No the aldercreatures will stay put. They are all spineless and if any of them do speak out, she will have her activists and her insiders in the media go after them. Groot wins, Chicago loses.
2 Trucks & 7 men to cut down a tree across from my house and a week later 2 guys and one truck to remove the stump,i'm thinking fuel and labor 4000/5000,private company 1500,I'm all for people needing to work but this isn't the 70's,plus another 150 operator sits at 103rd making 150.000 a year,this is only 10 people....and if you got "covet" 12 days off with pay and you can pick up to a additional 10/12 people that you were around and they can get up to 10/12 days off with pay,,,,WHAT A SCAM....
If this is true, time to pack the bags and go.
During this entire pandemic, Groot has been giving away a ton of $$$ to various projects/groups. She needs to learn how to CUT spending before taxing the citizens.
Tax the renters.
I pay double my electricity bill to my water bill
She doesn't know what else to do, business leaving , stores leaving, individuals who can leaving, the more productive and valuable the more likely to leave, all she can do is grease the skids on the downward spiral by raising taxes on those who make thing work
Great to have an inside link these days. Predict she will go ballistic if she reads this.
Yeah. That might finally do it.
Just can't imagine her flipping that old Brillo patch of hair on that head of bone too much...
Stupid groot never stopped hiring
It’s like chicago is flush with cash
She doesn't know what else to do, business leaving , stores leaving, individuals who can leaving, the more productive and valuable the more likely to leave, all she can do is grease the skids on the downward spiral by raising taxes on those who make thing work
Water is free
It’s a human right, groot
So nobody needs to pay their water bill.
Unless your skin is light
The progressive only destroys and never creates.
She’s like the pied piper, leading us all out of the city.
Once that’s done there will be nothing left to do to destroy the city. Where does Grootzilla go from there?
No cuts from CPS. I bet that is in there.
They talk about rebuilding the police dept. Why not rebuild CPS? Hit the “reset button”. Let’s hire all non union teachers for starters.
That is why the City just switched the garbage/water bill to monthly for everyone. So you do not "notice" the increase.
This was a bill we did not even have 5 years ago... Where does all this money go to ?.
Presumably the city income tax will be retroactive to January 2020?
So glad I retired and left that shit hole city and state. Punish the working citizens and give a break to those give nothing back to the city. What a piece of shit mayor. FUCK YOU LIGHTFOOT. You ruined Chicago in record time
Hey Groot I got a Christmas for you, it starts with and F and ends with a U!!!!!
that's like every cop, fire, and teacher family.
We’re paying a crime tax every time we pay for a car service or taxi to get around the city. Can’t use CTA trains (Red, BlueLine, etc.) as who wants to be a victim of assault, robbery or witness thugs intimidating anyone and everyone.
Such a great system with dwindling ridership because Auntie Kim and Miss Lori let criminals ruin the city. Murder rates, shootings, carjackings, and robberies destroy neighborhoods all over the city.
These city officials have security teams and car service paid for by the taxpayers. Remove their security so that they can experience what we citizens endure day in and day out. If the city is so safe, why have police guard Miss Lori’s house.
Another tax...not a possibility.
You could trim $500 million from that ridiculous bloated budget and not even blink. But those workers are voters so why risk it.
And don't forget about the state property tax surcharge that they floated a couple of years ago....
https://www.illinoispolicy.org/proposal-make-illinois-property-taxes-highest-in-the-nation-to-pay-state-pension-debts/
What happened to that rumor you had of her leaving office??
No cuts just tax
The city has so many boss”s, it makes corporate America look like a well oiled machine.
Add up all the deputies, assistants, directors, and you can clearly see we have more chiefs than Indians.
Renters take more than they give.
Tax the renters.
Good! Maybe THIS will finally convince my wife that we've gotta get out of this city, county, state!
I do not believe that state law ( constitution) allows any city in Illinois to impose their own income tax. That would have been allowed if JB's " Fair Tax" was passed. In the question of raising water rates, the city counsel can do that but the rate increase would apply to the suburbs. The city can only raise water rates to the suburbs when it is an increase in the actual cost of providing the water. That was a court case to prevent the city from raising money to pay their bills from the burbs.
Anonymous said...
During this entire pandemic, Groot has been giving away a ton of $$$ to various projects/groups. She needs to learn how to CUT spending before taxing the citizens.
12/25/2020 07:37:00 AM
The mayor does not have the power to " give away money". Only the alderman have that poser, to raise money and to spend money. Once money is allocated by ordinance, the mayor does not have an option.
Anonymous Anonymous said...
So glad I retired and left that shit hole city and state. Punish the working citizens and give a break to those give nothing back to the city. What a piece of shit mayor. FUCK YOU LIGHTFOOT. You ruined Chicago in record time
12/25/2020 08:29:00 AM
This is more of a case of "mission accomplished" to the democrats and media.
Impeach this despot now.......
Open a stupid ass Casino. WTF. Look how much money is being spent by the POTHEADS. These people spend money. Reep the tax benefits but Lori is only interested in destroying CHICAGO.
Hey, it is Christmas! Can't everyone just pitch in to help LightGrinch like they did in "It's a wonderful life"? It will be "just swell".
Even if you move, you can't get away. Kamala Harris made 71 Trillion dollars in campaign promises when she was running for President. Everyone will be working in health care and education because she promised free health care and college education for illegals! You can probably make a few extra bucks selling Gatorade and toilet paper to the massive migrant caravans headed this way. Or, you can use your new jet ski like a tugboat and run a rafting service at the Rio Grande.
You can always make money under Democrat leadership. You just can't think about the "good of the country". You must commit to being in it just for you and yours.
Larri doesn’t like leaks. I’d hate to be the city comptroller right now. Interestingly enough, he was CFO at O’Hare’s finances before Larri appointed him to the top Chicago financial post. He must know something worth hiding. Larri’s web of distrust just spread a bit more.
The gullible imbecile Larri didn’t think of that tax increase proposal, someone else did. They have a foolproof idea on where the reliable, pay-on-time money is. Larri still doesn’t get it. You may think she’s an idiot but don’t let her paranoia fool you, she is.
AngryToad is sitting high on the log with her 2 hour work day, 2 days a week StayAtHome, shop on city time, chauffeured out of state whenever she pleases job.
Anyone notice last month that Prickwrinkle did not raise County taxes for 2021 in their budget? It doesn’t include the allowable CPS tax levy increases but all County budget appropriations were balanced and no cuts.
Seems Prickwrinkle has rubbed a little “told you so” in the noses of the electorate. Could Prickwrinkle have been a better choice than Larri LightFührer? Who’s to say. And need I remind y’all, ShortShanks 3.0 came in third place for mayor in the Dem Primary losing by just 7,000 votes.
Larri LightFührer could have kept most of the City and its businesses open, could have kept most of the feral violence out, but chose to go along with the Anti-Trump bullshit. 2021 is the beginning of a whole new political arena. Larri is going to try and rebuild from her ashes and I don’t think this Summer is going to be all rosy and bright. Besides 27 Aldermen there’s an entire downtown business, commerce and financial sector that’s not going to benefit from the coming bailouts - a bailout Larri had promised. They are going to turn bigly on her.
Aldermaniac posturing to ensue.
The corrupt NYC and LA idiot mayors (one on final 6 mo. of term, the other close to recall) weren’t shy about saying it’s time to spread the wealth. Tag-a-log moron Larri just following orders, buried too deep with no friends or help on the horizon. Add JB to that list too.
I don’t understand enrollment at CPS is down what percentage then cut that same percentage! Population in Chicago is down what percentage cut that percentage! common sense .... why does the city keep increasing CPS other departments CUT you lost population !
SD could always use more good officers (and FD if you are here Also) 6%sales tax, no income tax, low property taxes. We didn't faint or close down for c19 so our economy is fine.
Check us out, we love those that serve and protect!
Anonymous said...
This is nonsense. The city can't impose a city income tax without State approval and if there were an income tax any tax would have to be at the same rate for everyone or no taxes at all. Thankfully the "fair tax" amendment failed.
12/25/2020 01:04:00 AM
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You are right bloke... the soda tax and the bag tax went though the state legislature too bloke
Get rid of residency or soon you won't even have 6k officers.
Foxx, Lightfoot, and Jabba were planning on completely destroying the city and state for a Biden Socialist reward. FAtass made bank with the testing and his "blind trust" companies and his net profit for 2020 is up 42% or 900 million - not too bad of work for 9 months. All the rich cleaned up and they are ready to go on a shopping spree with all the downed restaurants and businesses. They are going to buy blocks of real estate.
i don't know her boiling point. let alone where to stick the thermometer.
her nastyness deserves more in return.
fuck you lori lightfoot.
Soo, lets not go after people breaking law, hitting them with fines, let’s close businesses, let’s hit the middle hard working class which is the backbone for this city. It makes me sick in my stomach. Another reason to leave this city and state. Florida it is.
The exodus has begun let the shit show go on the decent law abiding tax paying people will b the fuck outta here leave it to BLM antifa sjws and the rest of the critters
The pension checks are cut from inside the city. Is that an end around to tax us if we leave when we retire? Will it apply to current retirees?
https://www.thebalance.com/cities-that-levy-income-taxes-3193246
Be careful where u move, lots of thieving cities tax income!
Check the website before you move somewhere!
https://www.thebalance.com/cities-that-levy-income-taxes-3193246
These places that tax income are scum type of cities and counties that I would NEVER consider living in and would move away, if they pulled this shit here in Shitcago, I'm GONE!
Anonymous Anonymous said...
Voters in Chicago asked for this.
They will get it. Good and hard.
12/25/2020 12:09:00 AM
She got very few votes in the first round but in the second round the large majority voted for her because we all thought she wouldn’t be as horrible nasty and destructive to the future of Chicago as she undoubtedly is. She’s a nightmare for Chicago! Couldn’t be worse. She’s just like all the rest of the Chicago politicians but worse. It’s like she’s purposely trying to destroy peoples lives and what was a great economic city. If she and the aldermen pass this tax it will be the end of Chicago and hopefully all of them.
Get a load of this. The Community Safety Team (CST) wrote a blue card on Santa last night for having a burnt out tail light. They proceeded to name check the reindeer and Rudolph got locked up for an active warrant for Interstate Flight from prosecution. Unreal.
Anonymous Anonymous said...
2 Trucks & 7 men to cut down a tree across from my house and a week later 2 guys and one truck to remove the stump,i'm thinking fuel and labor 4000/5000,private company 1500,I'm all for people needing to work but this isn't the 70's,plus another 150 operator sits at 103rd making 150.000 a year,this is only 10 people....and if you got "covet" 12 days off with pay and you can pick up to a additional 10/12 people that you were around and they can get up to 10/12 days off with pay,,,,WHAT A SCAM....
12/25/2020 07:04:00 AM
Thank Daley for that patronage waste. 3-4 guys on a garbage truck. Driver only drives. Never gets out. Same with other services. Private companies like Waste Management and Flood Brothers have ONE guy on the truck. He uses a “claw” to grab the cans and gets out of the truck frequently to get loose items. Lightfoot “the great reformer” lied again. No cuts to anything except CFD and CPD. CPS never gets cuts even when enrollment is dropping massively. Lightfoot still has security guards, crossing guards and safe passage workers in empty schools. Lightfoot is a disaster to Chicago!
Don't forget about the new property taxes being tied to inflation for annual increases in perpetuity. Set it and forget it...
This income tax will disproportionately affect people of color, undocumented aliens, Native Americans, persons with disabilities, women, under served residents, disadvantaged people, persons collecting government assistance, disabled community organizers and members of the H/G/S-R/B/T and H/B/T/Q communities.
Who isn't negatively impacted with this municipal investment incentive scheme?
I can’t wait to move out of this garbage s-hole of a city.
This idea has been floated in the past. How about cuts? Lori could start with the schools. Less students. How about asking the teachers to work during the summer to make up for lost time with no additional compensation? Stretch the school year till august? How will the CTU react? Remember it's for the children.
Even if this incompetent nincompoop decides not to run again there will be another nincompoop to take her place. ♠️
The more they take. The more they recklessly spend without any oversight and without any accountability. And yes fair elections have consequences. But the election fraud genie is out of the bottle and the people are powerless to take corrective actions. And those "oversight" and "accountability' mechanism failed are in firm control of the supreme party in control. We see elections compromised nationwide but we know it couldn't happen here. Wink. Wink.
Welcome to our New Socialist State, comrades! The few that work provide for those that choose not to! THE STATE PROVIDES FOR YOU. Now, light up that bong and drift away... Motherstate will make it all better...
Even the slightest idea of this is HORRIFYING! Every single citizen of Chicago should know the blame for Chicago’s financial destruction lies solely and absolutely in the laps of Chicago politicians. PERIOD! They never change their spending habits and tax tax tax. You can never tax your way into prosperity EVER. Lightfoot needs to go before she permanently destroys Chicago. The aldermen should care and do something quick. Say NO to Lightfoot!
Google the documentary “Seattle is dying “. It’s an hour long view into the city in 2 years
Not a peep from city’s “reps” in DC
Jan Mike Robin Bobby and shadow mayor chuey and squad pledge Marie Where’s the pork people. That’s wh you are there for. Do you jobs
Running red line to 130 will help. All the city can ride out to the gardens.
4-6 percent. Lol. Crazy. Let the casino in the ghetto pay that tax. Lol.
the bigger problem is that theres a need for the tax. Which will continue to stir the vicious cycle of more people who pay leaving and more vultures staying We're dead
For health reasons we had to depart our long term residence, too many stairs.
My family wanted to know what I preferred in our future residence and we replied no stairs and it definitely cannot be in Chicago and Cook County. They inquired why and I said crime and taxes.
I explained criminals are not held accountable in Cook County, politicians do not support the police in Chicago and the politicians in Chicago and Cook County insist on giving more funds to those that support them but do not contribute in any fashion to the financial problems these political entities are facing.
We moved to Mundelein.
Lol.. SCC Water rates to rise ?.. in 2020 unpaid Chicago Water bills were over $35 Million dollars..after Fu larri said water was a right & stopped water shutoffs for unpaid bills
Nary a word out of aldermen for Water dept unpaid bills
Anonymous Anonymous said...
Groot is half way done with her term. Can’t wait to vote against her.
12/25/2020 12:14:00 AM
Actually she hasn’t even been in for two years yet. Mid May is two years. How fucking scary is that reality??? It’s stunning how horrendous she is. Not even two years and look at the destruction she’s done. Chicago simply cannot wait until May of 2023. It will be too late. It’s up to the aldermen to do something otherwise Chicago will go down in history as the fastest great city to die. Lightfoot has to go for the good of Chicago’s future. Very sad
Illinois state income tax only for one year. It's here for over fifty now.
She will blame it on Trump, she always does and has no accountability to anything and the press continues to give her free passes...
Anonymous said...
Why do you think over the years they encouraged deferred comp. accounts. It’s their rainy day money for when they dip into, and run your finances for you to redistribute the wealth equitably.
12/25/2020 03:32:00 AM
100% wrong please educate yourself. Nationwide is used by the private sector also. It has nothing to do with the city. It’s not the city’s money and they can’t touch it. Nationwide or any investment group would collapse if word got out employers can take your personal money.
Chicago Scavenger Hunt?
Hey look what we found!
Chicago Sun-Times
Man found shot to death in car near South Side hospital:
police.
Chicago style. Now find some spent shell casings.
This idea has been floated a number of times by organizations and individuals other than the mayor. Probably to gauge the reaction. So far no one seems to care seriously. I would not be surprised to see a two or three percent tax on incomes over 50 grand.
The rate being floated in this rumor is probably just to get people riled up a little bit and then they can cut it in half so they're less riled up.
Typical politics.
HA!
And some are still talking about voting democrats out?
WTF don't you know, can't you see the voting is rigged. Every person that died of covid is another democrat vote. It's a one party system where the deep states put up both a red and a blue candidate to create the illusion of choice under a dictatorship.
For example..HEY, how bout all those congressmen that we voted into office to represent us. BOTH republicans AND democrats! They voted to pass a 5,000 page bill THAT NONE OF THEM HAVE READ. What kind of job is that? We pay them for this? These are puppets blindly following orders to keep a paycheck they don't care about anyone else. THEY ARE PAID BIG MONEY TO DO THIS...JUST PASS THE BILL DO WHAT YOU'RE TOLD DON'T READ ANYTHING OR QUESTION THE AUTHORITIES THAT'S WHEN THE TROUBLE STARTS AND YOU'LL FIND YOURSELF ON THE WHOSE SIDE OF THE CORRUPT VOTING MACHINE ALGORITHM
If Kim Foxx being reelected defies your logic it's because you're either ignorant or in denial. The system is rigged there will be no voting out of anyone unless the deep state wants them out PERIOD!
You dumb motherfuckers (Chicago politicians)are walking a tightrope already.
Do it.
I dare you.
Soft Targets
Chicago autonomous zones are just beginning to fully realize the benefits of summoning the delivery services for robberies and ride share for car jacking opportunities.
Ambushing delivery drivers to rob and ride share carjacking comes to the place of your choice. Gone are the days ofhaving to travel to find yourself victim your victim comes to you.
With the Amazon stage coach robberies you get a tracking number to know when to expect the truck full of goods to arrive. With the food delivery apps and ride share services you can view the make of car you want to jack, get a profile pic to see if they look easy and get to track them on the gps to your preferred location
There are at least seven cities in the USA that will pay you $10,000 dollars to move there right now. Why be a democrat whipping post?
But don't just move to where you will be treated a tiny bit better. Move somewhere that will treat you A LOT better with respect and values not this communist ANTIFA, BLM, domestic terrorist and school system gender study indoctrination of your kids.
That is why the City just switched the garbage/water bill to monthly for everyone. So you do not "notice" the increase.
This was a bill we did not even have 5 years ago... Where does all this money go to ?.
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At least part of it goes into some politician's back pocket.
Why is the city involved in picking up garbage at all? That is the real question to be asked.
After destroying all the small businesses transferring massive wealth to the big box stores how much of an increase will these politicians get in their next corporate campaign contribution?
There's a massive destruction of independence in progress. You will be dependent on the corporate stores and the concentration of political power for public aid as the mayor and the governor will be the deciders of the winners and losers and "those most in need" for the handouts.
Businesses paying a high rent for a prime store location with alleged high foot traffic that now has no foot traffic therefore not worth anywhere near the monthly payment on the lease. Paying for all sorts of city/state licenses to sell good and services and then are denied the right to offer the same goods and services. A fraud of the highest kind. We want our money back!
We're paying for police services we are not getting. Paying for congressmen to represent us by not reading bills and laws being proposed just sign the papers cuz some party leader says so. How the fuck is that a represented democracy when everyone from aldermen to congress in D>C. don't even read what they are voting on?!
Paying for a court system that is rigged and politicized. There are no checks and balances of power only checks and bank balances determining justice. Is Juicy Smollett been cut loose by orders of the VP Elect ME TOO office yet
Illinois legislature must authorize municipal income taxes. Illinois Constitution mandates ANY income tax is at the same rate for all residents.
Nice try.
The water, sewer and garbage monthly bill is bullshit. You thank that crook Rahm for doing that.....those services were already budgeted in our tax system, but he came up with another way to scam and steal the middle class. Next they force a water meter on you and if you lived in an older home, placing that meter disrupted the old lead piping. Then to “cure” that problem, they offered some bullshit water pitcher for those affected. I’m sick of these fools running the city.
Groot spent money like water on the Shithead Cowboy,
a shady and unscrupulous dude who also set up a Go
Make Me Rich page under the auspices of touring inner
city ghettos with his horses. (Do we really have any inner
city ghettos left after the 60's & 70's???)
Kids, that's an example of Government, Capitalism, and
Socialism all rolled together. You can't help but notice that
it failed and she is proposing taxes on the productive class.
There is a state law that forbids local income tax. She would have to get state law changed first. I don't think she could because a large number of Democrat state reps. are from Chicago. Just think what would happen to them the next election. If the Dems lose Chicago, they lose Illinois.
Blogger Mr. SouthSide said...
I tried looking up "cut spending" in the Democrat Dictionary. It said "see Republicans" .
12/25/2020 06:40:00 AM
The 80s is calling, they want their philosophy back
Lighthead is from Ohio - this is a common tax practice there. Columbus has a 3.5% city tax. Plus in Ohio you pay the city tax where you work. So you could have a 6-7% city tax rate without any deductions.
I'm going to use my mother's address in indiana
It’s the Dems New World Oder. Destroy everything then tax and redistribute what wealth is left. Remember all dem politicians were preaching this until a few months before the election. They stopped in fear of scaring away the independent vote. Now it’s full stream ahead. Time for the good states to think of secession.
How are you going to remove anyone what with rigged elections, as have been going on for the last 100 years, and now worse than ever. Nope. The mayor and alderslime have nothing to worry about from the "voters".
Chicago is gonna be a post apolopytic mess.
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Start using CU now better to use the hours then let the city steal it and get away with it.
Because: Crying Poor.
"If the Dems lose Chicago, they lose Illinois."
That made me spit up my margarita. Brother, every Democrat that I know in Chicago would rather mutilate their private parts with a blow torch than vote Republican or Libertarian. Vote them out? My lord, how long have you lived in Chicago? I know several people that left Chicago and vote Democrat in the red area that they escaped to. They are the only people in town that hate cops. Illinois plates, California plates, no different. Not welcome.
A military coup would fail to unseat the Democrats in Chicago. Doubt it? You are currently in a decades-old war that is MUCH worse than the counter-insurgency that we are still fighting in Afghanistan. This is statistically factual. I was in more danger in Chicago as a civilian than I was in Afghanistan as a military contractor. The citizens are getting killed while the politicians move around in armored convoys. Same, same. Like DC.
What happened to that rumor you had of her leaving office??
12/25/2020 09:23:00 AM
Lightfoot leaving would surprise me greatly. Her ego is far too big. FULL.
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Tax renters, tax wick cards and tax every thing the savages buy! Made them pay a fee for police and fire services.
So, are you saying Lootfoot wants to institute a "City Income Tax" like New York?
"If the Dems lose Chicago, they lose Illinois."
there will be another Ice Age before that happens!
WTFU!
Repubs in Illinois are even worse...
"This tax increase will only hasten the exodus of productive citizens."
That's the plan, you Idiot!
These people will continuously vote for this stupid crap. Thankfully Jaybee the Hutt didn't get his regressive income tax.
In terms of the "discounts" when do we get to ask what the line is in terms of buying votes? The only reason it's not is because it's being done with tax payer dollars.
This is expected when someone is elected to a position without any experience or knowledge!
Lightfoot will be a federal judge.
Let's give Janice (CEO) School System another $40k dollar raise.
Chicago doesn't have any money. But can afford a $40k dollar raise.
Again. Only the Connected get the Raises
Anonymous Anonymous said...
Get a load of this. The Community Safety Team (CST) wrote a blue card on Santa last night for having a burnt out tail light. They proceeded to name check the reindeer and Rudolph got locked up for an active warrant for Interstate Flight from prosecution. Unreal.
12/25/2020 11:59:00 AM
In God we trust all others get name checked.
And what's with Rudy and the warrant? F- him too.
They know the constitution must be changed and while they have it open pension reform happens. What other choices do they have cthry know they cannot tax, borrow or save their way out. Democratic Governor Democratic Control of legislature they got the votes needed question is do they have the balls. Cornered rats are very dangerous.
GAs prices are going to jump up by 50 cents, toll way taxes going up, and everything in between is going up. Why do pot shops only accept cash? Seems like a fast and easy way for fraud.
MERRY CHRISTMAS SCC
Check out this Seattle documentary - a map of things to come. https://youtu.be/WijoL3Hy_Bw
Filthy dirty scum liberals destroy everything they touch.
Prove me wrong triple threat!
A military coup would fail to unseat the Democrats in Chicago. Doubt it? You are currently in a decades-old war that is MUCH worse than the counter-insurgency that we are still fighting in Afghanistan. This is statistically factual. I was in more danger in Chicago as a civilian than I was in Afghanistan as a military contractor. The citizens are getting killed while the politicians move around in armored convoys. Same, same. Like DC.
12/25/2020 06:11:00 PM
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If a coup happened in Chicago (if it were a shit hole country) they would replace shit with a bigger piece of shit
onymous said...
Illinois legislature must authorize municipal income taxes. Illinois Constitution mandates ANY income tax is at the same rate for all residents.
Nice try.
12/25/2020 03:23:00 PM
The legislature cannot authorize any city in the state to impose an income tax. The wording of the state constitution prohibits this. Only the state can impose an income tax and only at a flat rate for everyone. If the "Fair Tax" was passed then the game would have changed and any city that has home rule could impose their own income tax. Why do you think the liberals wanted this " fair tax"? They did not mention the possibility of home rule cities taxing even more, did they?
100% wrong please educate yourself. Nationwide is used by the private sector also. It has nothing to do with the city. It’s not the city’s money and they can’t touch it. Nationwide or any investment group would collapse if word got out employers can take your personal money.
12/25/2020 02:00:00 PM
100% correct. I just don't understand why this rumor keeps floating around and people believe the city can take your deferred comp. It is untouchable by the city. The same stupid rumor keeps going around that the city, with the help of the legislature , can impose an income tax. NO THEY CANNOT. The state constitution prohibits anyone except the state from doing this. If this BS "fair tax" would have passed, then that would have allowed any home rule city to impose an income tax. I am sure that was on the mind of these tax raising liberals.
Someone said it earlier - this might not even be possible given the state constitution. Not that it couldn’t be changed. But if things sound to crazy to be believed, then maybe take a beat and figure out if it is possible. More likely - tax the shit out of your properties, booze, weed, cigs, cars, and air travel / hotels. They’ve been doing it this way my whole life - 2021 will just be more and faster.
Anonymous said...
For health reasons we had to depart our long term residence, too many stairs.
My family wanted to know what I preferred in our future residence and we replied no stairs and it definitely cannot be in Chicago and Cook County. They inquired why and I said crime and taxes.
I explained criminals are not held accountable in Cook County, politicians do not support the police in Chicago and the politicians in Chicago and Cook County insist on giving more funds to those that support them but do not contribute in any fashion to the financial problems these political entities are facing.
We moved to Mundelein.
12/25/2020 01:36:00 PM
You just have to leave cook county. Dupage and lake are turning slightly blue but it’s not dripping blue like awful cook. The blue in Dupage and Lake can quickly turn red. They also punish their criminals still. Go to Kane or McHenry if you want red but it’s a bit of a drive to head back to Chicago to see Doctors or family.
Time to recall this clown called mayor. She's been allowed to clown for way to long.
Anonymous Anonymous said...
Even if this incompetent nincompoop decides not to run again there will be another nincompoop to take her place. ♠️
12/25/2020 12:14:00 PM
I use to say that too but I think we found the worst mayor in Chicago’s history and future. No one on earth could be as bad as Lightfoot. Every single citizen openly hates her. I’ve never seen anything like her. So nasty mean dictator like and also totally incompetent. She’s the total package
IL state constitution's Article VII that allows home rule units of government to impose a local income tax with the approval of the General Assembly, but the requirement that taxes be at the same rate for everyone has been a disincentive.
The barking mayoral midget is draining the city of its life blood. She knows it and so does everyone else. Coming up with this tax shit and giving tax and water payment breaks to the Free Shit Army while making everyone else pay through ass will only hasten the reality that we all know is happening. Shitcago is part of a string of walking dead Socialist Democratic cities. The Midget is a Zombie - a Walker staggering in a wilderness of debt, murder, mayhem, chaos and financial ruin.
The only thing that could save her miserable ass is a big federal bailout from China Joe and Karmellon Harris. But of course its not coming out of China Joe's pocket, no sir, not one Chinese Yuan.
Its coming out of yours and my pocket.
"Anonymous said...
Anonymous said...
Why do you think over the years they encouraged deferred comp. accounts. It’s their rainy day money for when they dip into, and run your finances for you to redistribute the wealth equitably.
12/25/2020 03:32:00 AM
100% wrong please educate yourself. Nationwide is used by the private sector also. It has nothing to do with the city. It’s not the city’s money and they can’t touch it. Nationwide or any investment group would collapse if word got out employers can take your personal money.
12/25/2020 02:00:00 PM"
Agree 100% with the response. In fact, this type of post has been around this blog for a number of years. Thus, it prompted me to call Nationwide 2-3 years ago and inquire about this and was informed that Nationwide is the custodian of deferred compensation money and the city had absolutely no ability to touch it.
Anonymous Anonymous said...
Get a load of this. The Community Safety Team (CST) wrote a blue card on Santa last night for having a burnt out tail light. They proceeded to name check the reindeer and Rudolph got locked up for an active warrant for Interstate Flight from prosecution. Unreal.
12/25/2020 11:59:00 AM
Booooooo.... get off the stage.
Time to throw a bypass on my water meter
Not to be published, but I would not put past LL that she "planting" a fake budget for a few people to see who leaked it. Be careful and have your source be uber careful. My dad was CPD-in 011, died young. Thanks for all you do. You all are brilliant. Perhaps when you retire, you can write a book, create a blog that you can make money on, etc.
So How many more will try to leave ChIraq?
Too Late
Totally agree. Even my most hardened liberal friends agree with this sentiment. When our Trump debates go off the rails, the thing we can always agree on is Groot. It is take a breath, no more political talk, make a joke about Groot and Fatass, and change the subject. Groot is good for at least one thing so I'm grateful for her for the sheer reason she is the consensus subject.
12/25/2020 12:14:00 PM
I use to say that too but I think we found the worst mayor in Chicago’s history and future. No one on earth could be as bad as Lightfoot. Every single citizen openly hates her. I’ve never seen anything like her. So nasty mean dictator like and also totally incompetent. She’s the total package
12/25/2020 11:14:00 PM
Anonymous Anonymous said...
Someone said it earlier - this might not even be possible given the state constitution. Not that it couldn’t be changed. But if things sound to crazy to be believed, then maybe take a beat and figure out if it is possible. More likely - tax the shit out of your properties, booze, weed, cigs, cars, and air travel / hotels. They’ve been doing it this way my whole life - 2021 will just be more and faster.
12/25/2020 10:49:00 PM
But on the bright side the potheads smoked $800M in pot this year.
Was in Toronto Canada in mid 1990s. Went to IHOP with wife and two kids. The bill was 90.00 with about half of that being taxes. You cant provide a middle class lifestyle to everyone regardless of wether they work or not without backbreaking taxes. Free healthcare, freee school, free phones , free computers , free housing and food, utilities paid and heavily subsidized public transportation. The city government should be thinking of ways to survive post pandemic mass exodus from city (two year supply of unsold condos downtown and on north side) instead they are doing everything they can to drive bill payers out. The unions should be taking legal action NOW before its too late to demand legally required funding of pensions.
Tax looting proceeds. Make offenders pay carjacking tax and get licensed . Murder fee. Legalize prostitution and hard drugs and tax it. You can turn all the empty downtown offices and condos into whorehouses and opium dens. Also sell seized weapons back to public. Sell “Chicago Citizenship” to illegal aliens. Declare Chicago “ warrant free zone” to draw new residents from all over country. Revenue should get us through next ten years so we can retire or find other jobs. Chicago is done. Newark, Baltimore,Cleveland,Detroit, Saint Louis,Chicago.
Just when you thought you couldn't get a bigger A-hole than Rahm, you get Groot.
Believe it or not, there is a bigger turd out there. Leave it up to the city's democrats to find it.
End the TIF funds. Period
Anonymous said...
Anonymous said...
Why do you think over the years they encouraged deferred comp. accounts. It’s their rainy day money for when they dip into, and run your finances for you to redistribute the wealth equitably.
Dumb. You probably still believe the average retiree lives 1 1/2 years after retirement.
The Illinois Constitution provides that home rule units of governments such as the City of Chicago may only impose a local income tax if that authority is granted by the General Assembly, and it has not done so to date.
Nothing left to be said. Has to be approved and passed by the General Assemby, not the aldermen
Why in the hell would LL resign? I'm not aware that the aldercreatures have the power to recall a mayor but even if they do, they won't. Too many tribes in city hall. Meanwhile the dwarf has it made. Nice salary, perks worth a few hundred K a year, gettin
her ass kissed by most of the people she comes in contact with and the ability to push around anyone she chooses. In short, a dream job. And so what if prickwinkle pushes her out on '23. She can still say she was once mayor of the third largest city in the U.S.
Anonymous said: "Why do pot shops only accept cash? Seems like a fast and easy way for fraud"
ANSWER:since cannabis is illegal under federal law banks, most if not all of whom are federally chartered, will not touch weed money. I do believe that Greenhouse in Skokie will take debit cards though Rise in Mundelein does not. When I was in the Denver area in 2019 all of the dispensaries that I was aware of were cash only.
She cannot create a city income tax. And Springfield can’t give her permission to creat a city income tax. The Illinois constitution specifically states that tax on income can only be done by the state. That’s why not passing the “fair tax” was so critically important.
I'm a city employee not cop or fire. I make about 85k a year. I have two kids in private high school and pay child support and maintenance. Even if I stayed married we'd just be making ends meet. I drive a 14 year old car take one family vacation a year. I'm hardly living the high life I mean to say 70k and made to live in Chicago is hardly a rich man's salary. I've got 8 years before I'm pension eligible. Pray there's a pension left after all this. Please know scc that there's plenty of love and respect for police officers. I'd say everyone living in Chicago probably knows a policemen.
Anonymous Anonymous said...
She cannot create a city income tax. And Springfield can’t give her permission to creat a city income tax. The Illinois constitution specifically states that tax on income can only be done by the state. That’s why not passing the “fair tax” was so critically important.
12/27/2020 09:08:00 AM
You are wrong
The Illinois Constitution provides that home rule units of governments such as the City of Chicago may only impose a local income tax if that authority is granted by the General Assembly, and it has not done so to date.
Anonymous Anonymous said...
She cannot create a city income tax. And Springfield can’t give her permission to creat a city income tax. The Illinois constitution specifically states that tax on income can only be done by the state. That’s why not passing the “fair tax” was so critically important.
12/27/2020 09:08:00 AM
You are wrong
The Illinois Constitution provides that home rule units of governments such as the City of Chicago may only impose a local income tax if that authority is granted by the General Assembly, and it has not done so to date.
12/27/2020 10:42:00 PM
Ok, so it's NOT a constitutional issue. Then think about it - why in the world would some legislator from southern Illinois NOT give Lori the Liberal the power to impose a Chicago income tax?
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