The Answer is "Yes"
Brandon Johnson has refused to state whether he'll raise his city's taxes to pay for the migrant crisis - despite being asked three times in a new interview.
The Windy City's mayor made the comments - or lack thereof - during a sitdown with CBS 2 [...] Thursday, where talks hovered around the yearly task of setting a city budget.
The discussion, however, quickly turned to his predecessors' pledge to house arriving asylum seekers - a promise he has vowed to continue, after an estimated 20,000 entered Chicago last year alone.
As the two spoke, more than 500 migrants were waiting to be placed in one of the 27 temporary shelters the city has set out for them, with roughly 200 staying in warming buses at the city's landing zone.
So that raise everyone got....guess where it's going?
And with the coming OT cuts, it becomes less and less affordable to live in the city.
For retirees, too.
UPDATE: And Conehead is running 200 buses 24/7 to keep illegals warm.
Environmentally sound this guy.
Labels: money questions
posted by SCC at 12:05 AM
65 Comments:
why the hell are retirees still living in Shitcago??!
It looks like the CTA is getting all the overtime now.
All the warming buses are being operated by drivers working overtime.
Does the CTA get to bill the city a fare for each one aboard these busses? I bet they're crowing about their ridership going way up too.
Light snowfall in the last three months of ‘23 saved the Streets and San. Budget almost 36 million dollars. Jan. ‘24 is running under budget also. So far almost 7 million saved. Mother Nature loves the migrants.
Good luck with our pensions. They'll be gone sometime soon if all this keeps up.
It’s okay. I think they’re electric buses.
If they drove the buses into the building? They could warm up the inside of the building too!
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That's a JOKE!!! A Joke.
Seriously? If you are out there tonight and tomorrow? Look for signs of CO Poisoning in every one you see. If in doubt? Call it in. You can share your fun with CFD!
Busses at $10,000 per day!
"Brandon Johnson has refused to state whether he'll raise his city's taxes to pay for the migrant crisis - despite being asked three times in a new interview."
When you ask any politician if they want to raise taxes?
No means Yes!
Maybe means Yes!
Yes means "WE WILL SODOMIZE YOU ORALLY AND ANALLY!"
We are only going to raise taxes on the Rich.
The "Rich" are anyone with a job or without an EBT CARD.
Everyone will pay their fair share!
That means you are paying your share, the homeless bums share, and the share of rich dude that donated to your representative's and your senator's campaign fund. The rich dudes get the tax breaks, and the politicians get to hob nob at the rich guys vacation home, like Biden, Obama and Trudeau.
Blowie is even worse than the groot and that's plenty bad.
This Marxist idiot just lost the black vote.
A third of the voting block.
I'm sure existing illegals aren't happy with the competition.
Whites are leaving in droves
What exactly is his strategy ?
Sales tax on everything, including ALL purchases with welfare 'entitlement' benefits.
Recoup some of my tax payments.
Additional tax when plastic card is used to pay. Any plastic card. All plastic cards.
Cash gets 50% discount on all sales taxes.
Yep.
Pay with cash, pay less tax.
I will give him one complement. He is phenomenal at diversion a typical Democrat a liar, a coward he talks about in the article about all the black families that are on housed no idiot on the house. There’s a word you made up they’re homeless that many black families are homeless had an idiot are you? Do you really think people believe anything you say everything that comes out of your mouth is delusional. You’re going to raise taxes. We all know that the flight out of this city will be phenomenal even though we are number three right now as a state with people getting the hell out of here this is a Third World city a Third World state. Thanks to the Democrats thanks to you, Brandon you are such a coward. He is phenomenally insane. No wonder you were a Chicago public indoctrination center so-called teacher didn’t really learn the bullshit and I’m sure you taught your students. This also did any of them graduate the ones you taught?
Asked why these people are coming to Chicago the President said,
“I gave the order, for them to jump the border.
I’am vacationing at Camp David , waiting to be slated.
I’am just biding my time, cause that’s the kind of guy I’am.
Next weekend off to the beach, maybe I’ll give a speech.
Thanks Brandon for your help, it will make the voters yelp!”
Interesting, his predecessor wouldn’t sit for interviews (not for white reporters anyway). This guy will sit for interviews, but he won’t answer questions. I guess that it is at least a step in the right direction.
"Lets Go Braindead Jonestown", Wasting other working peoples hard earned money the democratic way...
Yes we are going to pay until it hurts and then some. BLM Brandon supports the takeover of the country by embedding the illegal aliens into the City. He might complain about the buses bringing them into Chicago but that is the smokescreen so he can blame Governor Abbott for sending them to BLM’s Sanctuary City. In fact he and his City Council refused to put the referendum on the March ballot to let the voters decide if they wanted it to be a Sanctuary City. That’s pretty telling of what they are up to.
They keep coming, they keep welcoming them, they don’t tell Washington DC we don’t have the money or the room which is in lockstep with the Biden Administration. We don’t have the money, so like an irresponsible person with a credit card they are going to keep charging and in the end the taxpayers will be forced to pay.
We are slaves to the villainous Democrat Party and their vicious ways.
On the Mark Levin Show, Life, Liberty & Levin Sun 14 Jan 24 his guests were Economist Steven Moore and Attorney & Senior Advisor to President Trump, Steven Miller. They both outline what is occurring and Miller details what is in store for America with the migrant. The hour show is on youtube & Fox. Miller’s 8 minute interview can be found on Fox. His comments are really worth seeing.
I’m going out on a limb and do declare the city is broke……
This 2024 budget we are operating on is based on projection.
Massive city layoffs are coming thanks to the stupidity of democrats spending money they don’t have on a phony made up illegal migrant crisis.
And as a sideshow, we are hosting the dnc 🤣
It’s okay. I think they’re electric buses.
Plugged into a diesel generator...
Now greeeeese me...!
It'll be levied on business. Head tax, property tax, special business tax, anything They are in no way going to raise taxes in the black community to support the illegals.
Anonymous said...
why the hell are retirees still living in Shitcago??!
1/15/2024 12:13:00 AM
Thought exactly the same thing being a retiree looking at myself in the mirror asking myself even though everything is paid for taxes are pretty reasonable for now I’m asking myself am I out of my mind? Dealing with wondering every day if you were going to be a victim of a crime and now this, it just continues to get worse every day every democratic controlled state never in history has it been this bad to go back to the old times, you have to ask are the Democrats are retarded?
Answer to retirees question of Chicago residence preference. They are stupid. He better question is why anyone who pulls the R lever lives in Chicago. Oh well guess that “stupid” applies there as well.
At least for the moment, even Wikipedia has an accurate description of what is happening:
“The "Cloward-Piven Strategy" seeks to hasten the fall of capitalism by overloading the government bureaucracy with a flood of impossible demands, amassing massive unpayable national debt, and other methods such as unfettered immigration thus pushing society into crisis and economic collapse by overwhelming the system.”
If you simply understand that these people hate the country, then everything that they are doing makes perfect sense.
How can this guy not resign? The best thing he can do for the city and for himself because a lot of rumors about his health taking medication’s for various psychological issues and pressure is too much. He obviously cannot handle it as he destroys the city. Whoever his handlers are, they are pulling the puppet strings. He doesn’t know what to say. He looks crazy when he talks there’s definitely something mentally deficient. But then again, there is a part of being a democrat. You have to be mentally deficient.
Note two things.
1. They are using hybrid buses meaning all the environmental gains of those half million dollar buses are wasted as the electric motors are idled and batteries sit fully charged by the internal combustion engine
2. They are high capacity accordion style buses so ever high capacity hybrid bus taken off the road is likely being replaced by TWO I.C.E. buses.
An environmental plan only a dumb ass CTU CPS teacher that is unable to read or do math at grad level would love
I’ll be enjoying my raise living in a deep red state. That is all.
This could truly be the breaking point. 3 families on my block in 22 already moving out of the city after a car jacking on the block this summer. Older folks who see no reason to put themselves at risk any longer but the rest of are looking at the trajectory and it doesn't take a rocket scientist to see what is coming. These Marxist clowns don't believe that Chicago can become the next Detroit....they are wrong. To all of the CPS and other Union morons who back these policies know I will be laughing when math inevitable catches up and the tax base can no longer support your lives.
Where's John Kerry when you need him. Ha Ha! Oh, he's leaving to help Biden!
Those electric buses must be nice now!
$1,100,000 per bus.
You don’t like him because he is black. Give him some slack. He’ll bring the city back to where people and businesses are fighting to move here. That’s what my Tarot cards are telling me.
why the hell are retirees still living in Shitcago??!
1/15/2024 12:13:00 AM
Stockholm Syndrome.
Back to the stations with the migrants.
Allow them to use the showers located in the locker rooms. In fact turn over the locker rooms to the migrants. Cops can work out of their car trunks.
“Anonymous said...
Good luck with our pensions. They'll be gone sometime soon if all this keeps up.
1/15/2024 12:51:00 AM”
Yes, that’s an aspect of the plan to redistribute wealth. Of course the redistribution only occurs from middle class to lower class and the illegal class.
You’ll never see the 1%’ers like Gates, Cuckenberg, Klaus Schwab, Buffett, Rockefeller and Ford families, the Hamptons residents on Martha’s Vineyard, etcetera etcetera having their wealth redistributed.
No no no, that’s only for the little and unimportant people.
Brandon Johnson has refused to state whether he'll raise his city's taxes to pay for the migrant crisis - despite being asked three times in a new interview.
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Nothing like transparency.
I guess we're all on a "need to know " basis.
OT:
The boss just made us put preferred pronouns in our email signatures so instead of they/them. or he/him etc...I used She/It
The problem with "Socialism" is that sooner or later you always run out of other people's money...
Another democratic moron crying:
https://chicago.suntimes.com/elections/2024/1/15/24036350/chicago-democratic-ward-committeeperson-unpaid-job-lack-of-interest
What is racial justice in Chicago? A Virtue Signalling Label.
That's where you demand to de-fund the police to create a cop desert in your community so that your neighbors can rob and loot your neighborhood grocery stores into bankruptcy.
Once the bankrupt stores close down and pullout and leave creating a food desert you play the victim/race card complain that "THEY" are systemically dismantling the p/o/c community and wish that your democrat socialist communist elected officials would do more to stop the racists store owners from leaving.
Black Lives Matter says " I don't care if a store gets robbed they have insurance. people gotta eat." Whelp should anyone care if people get shot and robbed? They have insurance people gotta eat..and then we get the "social justice warrior" Chicago Teachers Union and Chicago Public school teachers to promote that mindset...
Resolution for Black Lives Matter (BLM) at School Month – Chicago Teachers Union
January 12, 2024
The resolution passed unanimously at the Jan. 10 meeting includes plans for CTU members o to wear Black Lives Matter at School shirts to school that week and teach one or more lessons in their classrooms. "(T)he CTU will treat this effort as a structure test in our contract campaign to reject curriculum that does not reflect our racial justice values and is not engaging for our students or user-friendly and accessible to educators (such as much of Skyline)."
An entire school month? That BLM shirt is gonna get pretty smelly don't ya think? All proceeds for the BLM shirts will go towards the BLM leaders mansion purchasing fund am I right? Just do it!
We demand government run taxpayer funded grocery stores in our community so the kids (aka mobs, baby capones) have places to rob - Social justice? More like social f-ups
Why should anyone be held accountable the CTU president isn't $23 million in missing school equipment? Don't they have insurance?
Video: Leadership remains silent as $23 million in devices reported missing from Chicago schools – FOX News
January 12, 2024
Chicago Teachers Union President Stacy Davis Gates refuses to conduct an audit, even though its bylaws state that the union will produce an audit for members annually. Additionally, teachers have submitted more than a dozen formal requests to see the books, Illinois Policy Institute's Austin Berg said
don't stop there...
Dolton mayor tags some trustees as expendable during recent budget OK, calling them ‘bench warmers’ – Daily Southtown*
January 14, 2024
“I cannot and will not be controlled,” Mayor Tiffany Henyard said
If the election was today...
Blacks and Far Left commies will still vote for him...
Chicago is hopeless..
Say what again I double dog dare you. Do they speak English in what?
English? Not in Chicago Public schools obviously/
I officially retire tomorrow but I already relocated to 65 degree weather. Tee Time is at noon today. So enjoy
that blistering cold weather. Any retiree that is retired and still lives in Shitcago needs a brain scan. Where’s the Lie?
So much for global warming.
Anonymous Anonymous said...
why the hell are retirees still living in Shitcago??!
1/15/2024 12:13:00 AM
Family, friends, no state income tax to name a few. Good neighbors
As a previous commenter said, why TF are retirees living in the city?
That also tends to blow the whole theory that “if you lift residency, cops will leave” right out of the water.
Hell, they RETIRE and don’t leave. SMH
Don’t have enough sense to come in out of the rain I guess.
Must enjoy being kicked around.
But those of us who actually WANT to live outside the limits and not be subjected to this mess should be free to do so.
Some of us retirees have elder parents and other obligations to attend to up here. We carved out lives here. I visit a lot of locations that you guys aspire to flee to upon retirement. Some are very good others are barely average. This whole world is messed up not just Chicago. I do plenty here, always have my itchy along when hitting downtown and add to our economy having dinner and a few pops and then head home. I’d like to think that if we had chosen Vallas to lead this city it would be different but we’ll never know.
What raise? Those of us in the private sector got jack and chit. If you got cost of living raise in the past couple of years, you're one of the lucky ones. The rest of us are just getting poorer as taxes and inflation go higher.
Did he say that the question is 'raggedy'?
with all the empty schools , migrants could use hallways,gymnasiums,library,study hall to sleep , rest , plenty of bathrooms for them to use . much better than a police district lobby , no social distancing , chances of getting covid19,rsv,flu or other illnesses to citizens completing police reports,police officers.
guess covid isn't contagious in 2024
the city fined businesses, churches mmmmmm was it was a hoax to shut down economy.
imagine wasting gas , migrants breathing diesel fuel, no bathroom facility
teachers want nothing to do with filthy , unvaxed illegals
how many ctu members live in suburbs
This Marxist idiot just lost the black vote.
A third of the voting block.
I'm sure existing illegals aren't happy with the competition.
Whites are leaving in droves
What exactly is his strategy ?
1/15/2024 02:17:00 AM
He's an idiot.
He has no strategy.
Now, were you to inquire as to the obamanation clan's strategy.....
What happened to climate change being the biggest threat to the black community? or was that MAGA? I can't keep track.
BJ will gaslight us and say it’s OUR fault!
Whatever it takes to keep the city running. Living in Chicago is still very affordable.
The idiot should be happy. Even if the illegals are not citizens they count in the census and for federal funds coming from DC. They could offset the Great Illinois Exodus and Illinois might not lose another seat in theUS House
OTOH just think how many extra seats Texas would gain if they stayed in TX. BJ and the Dems should be happy
Old Chinese proverb: Beware of the man with pointed head. It's how the gods mark out liars.
So Governor Pritzker is calling out Governor Abbott of Texas for sending the poor migrants to Chicago where it is so cold. How cruel! Pritzker is a scam artist. Texas is having the worst weather it’s going down into the single digits tonight. They have even asked residents to conserve on electricity fearful of more power failures.
So Pritzker won’t tell the Biden Administration to close the border which would stop this national crisis because the Democrats are trying to fill up the State of Texas with aliens with the goal of turning it into a blue state.
Pritzker is also meeting with some Illinois mayors to discuss the migrants. What he needs to do is get every Illinois mayor and see how many aliens they are willing to take in their cities & towns. How do you think that will go? The only dummy he can count on is Blowie.
And since Pritzker is so merciful start taking some of the aliens in your vast Hyatt Hotel network, it’s a tax write off.
This Marxist idiot just lost the black vote.
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The blacks will still vote mostly democrat, make no mistake.
They might be complaining and making voting threats, but they will never vote Conservative as a group. They all looking and waiting for an alternative Democrat candidate.
Anonymous said...
OT:
The boss just made us put preferred pronouns in our email signatures so instead of they/them. or he/him etc...I used She/It
1/15/2024 09:34:00 AM
Can I just use:
Straight, natural women from birth, God fearing, Trump voting Republican 🇺🇸
Look who is quiet on the Western front! The chief liberal progressive racist Prickwinkie. You don’t hear her say a word and hoping that people will forget about her sneakie backfiring plans. I just learned that she is on the ballot for the March election. Any black person South of Madison St that votes for her should be hung. HA!
If you have been following the Iowa Caucus, it appears Iowa voters are not happy with the present Biden immigration policy. When will Chicago and parts of Illinois wake up?
Then we have this a real man, a real governor and this guy what a just a piece of crap crybaby maybe mommy and daddy can wipe his nose you know he never had a job him and his family have billions of dollars and over 300,000 rooms available at his Hyatt hotel chain. Why aren’t they in there? What a hypocrite he’s a pig.
Gov. J.B. Pritzker says Texas Gov. Greg Abbott rebuffed his plea to pause migrant transports to Chicago area during freeze
https://chicago.suntimes.com/columnists/2024/1/15/24039467/immigration-asylum-seekers-chicago-texas-pritzker-abbott-texas-crisis-migrant-border-nation-world
Sold my Chicago house last summer. I figured 2023 would be the last chance to dump it at a reasonable price. Also expecting pension haircut. Deep South far more affordable, no communists, everyone speaks English.
Anonymous said...
This Marxist idiot just lost the black vote.
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The blacks will still vote mostly democrat, make no mistake.
They might be complaining and making voting threats, but they will never vote Conservative as a group. They all looking and waiting for an alternative Democrat candidate.
1/15/2024 06:29:00 PM
Read about Margaret Sanger in history she wanted to abolish all black babies, and this started Planned Parenthood where are most Planned Parenthood locations located near the black communities near the minority communities why is that? Why did the governor of Illinois take out ads throughout the country promoting abortion?
https://apnews.com/article/pritzker-illinois-abortion-access-roe-dark-money-16ab0d498d77a4a9d695cff87211928c
many blacks believe Honest Abe was a democrat.
Wait till you have grandkids. You are not moving anywhere. Check with the spouse.
Grandkids or not, you don’t have to live within the city limits to see them and enjoy time with them.
Or within the county for that matter.
The fact that you don’t know how to leave your childhood neighborhood after being retirement age isn’t exactly a badge of courage.
It actually shows a lack of sensibility in regards to the current situation in Chicago.
Also, my spouse wants to leave more than I do which says a lot.
So don’t blame your wife.
Life is about choices.
You are choosing to live in Chicago even after you aren’t required to.
Just say that instead.
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