$8 Billion (with a B)
- Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson says he will not veto a 2026 budget that he has called “morally bankrupt,” instead allowing it to go into effect and staving off political gridlock and the risk of an unprecedented government shutdown.
But then he starts up with so-called "executive orders" that don't seem to have been passed by any legislative body and we can't recall being codified into law:
Those executive orders prohibit the city from selling medical debt to third parties and create more oversight on police overtime spending.
“I don’t want to give a signal to the people of Chicago that I support what I believe is one of the most detrimental and immoral aspects of this budget,” Johnson said, explaining why he will allow the budget to take effect without proactively signing it. He was referring to a part of the budget that will rake in about $90 million in increased debt collection.
$90 million sounds like a bunch, but Conehead's own economic team claims the budget shortfalls will be in the neighborhood of $160 million (slightly less than what Conehead spent on ILLEGAL ALIENS by the way).
The amount of outstanding debt due to the city (meaning taxpayers) is over $8 billion, meaning the $90 million to be collected (maybe) is just over 1% of the $8 billion owed. If Chicago collected even 10% of the debt owed, it would cover shortfalls for years, negating tax hikes and fee increases. (the Tribune has a paywalled editorial at this link)
This is what Conehead calls "immoral," that everyone else has to cover the cost of these freeloaders.
Labels: city politics, money questions
posted by SCC at 12:05 AM
53 Comments:
It’s like the Antichrist is running the city.
Silence implies consent. Coward.
Meanwhile, ALL the rats will eventually jump ship over the years with their hefty pensions, leaving residents to pay the bills!
When will the tribune ever write an editorial about what a total incompetent mayor we have?? I actually might buy that 🤪
That is because Corned is one of those freeloaders, He is the biggest POS and has no problem with people knowing he is a F-N Bust-out......
how about the city stop paying the politically connected businesses to cut the grass and pick up garbage at all the cha sites and get the "residents" who do nothing but sit around and get high and drunk all day while getting free taxpayers' money
If anyone knows immoral it would be Brandon.
Hypocrite would also work.
Moron is likely
Fits Fool to a tee.
Merry Christmas Eve in Chicago. 1st MASS shooting of the holiday week is at 7000 s Halsted. Thanks Brandon the Grinch. Thank you to everyone working this holiday weekend. Stay safe.
When he says "medical debt" he's referring to ambulance billing. He know's that the "community's" primary care physicians are 911. If taxpayers saw first hand how the current EMS system was abused they'd burn city hall to the ground.
Keep waiting.
Currently:
City, county and state politics = delusionals saturated in their own vanities.
Minions of said delusionals ditto.
Said minions also prone to violences, baked into their vanities of rightous insanities.
None of which contributes to their own consumptions of daily breads.
Think the fable of the Little Red Hen, with the ending being the lazy barnyard critters feasting upon chiken soup and dunking their meager slices of bread in it.
Take and break and mooch and pound their coochies, then repeat.
All of this not at all caused by colors of skin.
It's a state of mind, feckless quality of chosen personality to do as they choose, as they can, to anyone.
To see outside of this box within a box within a box within a box requires effort.
Off Topic.....I just contacted social security and filed for spousal benefits based on my wife's work record. She only worked part time for various reasons but she still has a stronger work record. I will now get 100 dollars more per month than I got using my record. Look into it people.
Shit head … I mean Conehead is quickly finding out that trying run socialist programs is not that easy if taxpayers aren’t on board or if taxpayers leave the city.
Look at all the money also spent on these so-called cleaning crew for the districts...so lazy, they barely do anything to keep the stations clean and the one we have in our district, an F1, come in late, goes to the cleaning supply room and locks the door then sleeps until the final hour when she comes out to empty trash cans and goes home...and by the way, how many times she has come in smelling like weed! Fucking useless contract. Hire older civilians willing to actullay clean and work.
That sounds racist. There are plenty of people that work there!!!!!! They just are on hard times
More proof the politiliars hate us. We are only cash machines.
Didn’t he yesterday issue an executive order limiting police overtime?
The "gold braid" pensions are bull-poop. Gifts to people in one term positions like the Superintendent, CTU high-ups or useless Alderman, yes that stuff needs to change fast. Take that even higher to Governors, senators and congress people, make them eligible after 2 or 3 terms. But the day to day city worker (police, teachers, and cough- cough even fire) deserve what we all pay into and what the
City promised they would pay if were played along. We're used for a solid tax base with no option to choose where we live according to our contracts. It's a give and take, and the city has definitly taken. It's not our faults that the city has stolen from it to fill budget gaps and mismanaged it into the ground. Don't blame the people actually paying to work here.
Party Pooper
God this guy is dumb
Who exactly are the people/businesses that owe $8 billion to the city and why isn't the city aggressively collecting from these people? If they don't pay garnish wages/tax returns and go after property. Start by publishing a public list of these people and how much they owe. Why is no one pushing for this?
I agree. That was a pretty ballless move on Coneheads part. He's so pumped up on Zoloft to prevent another mental breakdown he can't even make a decision. What a pussy! The budget got passed with Zero talk of spending cuts of cutting burdensome property taxes. I'm willing to bet that property, and other taxes will see another hike in the next year.
Chicago values since 1837
Also signed into Executive Order, capping police overtime spending and creating new oversight of the Chicago Police Department. According to the mayor's office, the overtime executive order "states that, barring legitimate emergencies, the Chicago Police Department (CPD) cannot unilaterally exceed the budgeted overtime cap.
542/542 are going to start crying!!!!
" fuck you, pay me.." Henry Hill,
" Goodfellas"
An idealist with no brain
BJ Johnson is no mathlete and for that matter neither is the 50 aldermans.
Math and reading comprehension are not the former CTU fat cat lobbyist's strength now running a billion dollar municipal corporation. Neither is reasoning. Nor the interests of the people. Misrepresented as book smart or something similar keeping his dream alive. More like a nightmare. Some have considered limp Johnson to be a Tier 1 educator overachiever surpassing those who graduated with high honors master degrees from big name City Colleges educational powerhouses. Lets go Brandon!
FU pay me!
You’re going to make a great detective investigating sex crimes!
It's for the children. Why do you hate children?
If members had to work every minute of their regular time & then overtime - we’d lower the OT by massive percentages. Let’s be honest, very few PO’s, detectives, Sgt’s or Lt’s works a full shift then put in 8-12 hours of OT (as consistently as they claim). If we take the 10 highest OT earners and conduct a true forensic accounting (including key stroke & LPR searches on personal vehicles & take home cars) - you’d be amazed at the outcome. Straight up fraud.
No mention of illegals in the city budget 🤔
who actually reads that rag paper?
So glad I read this. I'm going to tell all my cancer doctors in naperville that it's immoral to bill me for treatment. I will tell them blow job panic attack mayor of the future conehead said so. First Lady Mrs conehead concurs. Any bets on my outcome .
Over the years I've worked out of several stations that had absolutely great custodial staff. Don't paint with such a broad brush.
what do you expect from a 2nd grade cps teacher??
The $8 billion is owed by thousands of ghetto assholes in The Community who've refused to ever hold down a straight job, call 911 to get a "free" ride to the "free" Doctor at Stroger, never pay red light camera tickets, parking tickets, City Stickers, water bills, dog licenses... anything you & I pay just to get by in this city. We pick up the tab for them so they can smoke weed all day in a free apartment while their meal-ticket children are babysat by CPS.
Sounds nice. The problem was always that as you went into a new shift, the oncoming supervisors did not want to let you leave until something was resolved. They didn’t want to tie up their people with the previous shift’s work. That won’t change regardless of the mayor’s directives.
Cry me a river bj , and call for a forensic audit on your detail for ot . Compare cpd ot to your detail and your patrol detail on your house. Lets have an oversight on your ass . 👍🏿🖕🏿
This would include you also right? Let me tell you something, where I work people earn their fn money.....from the top on down. You must be referring to a cush unit job or Northside District.
The only fraud I see on a regular basis is cops playing dress up in uniform while posting on social media pretending they're the police, and thinking they really are the police, when in reality they're not.
Big pimpin !!!
Chicago cannot survive. Four months from now they will be talking about a short fall in revenues
Ive been hearing "Capping the ot" but it never happens...there is OT in my district everyday!!
cps needs a few extra million to change all their diplomas from "graduating" to "participation diploma"
Disagree. Overtime people live at the district, area, city hall.
Whew glad we got ken griffin who has our backs.....welp I forgot he left town!
I pay my bills so these losers can fuck off and pay their city bills or get dinged on their paychecks!
Either way, fuck you and pay it!
I’d say audit the top 50 OT earners on CPD - I’d love to see that report. I bet if you gave each of the 50 top earners of OT a direct order to swipe in/out everyday - they wouldn’t be in the top 50 anymore, despite them been in the top 50 for several previous years. Look at the top earners in a certain Southside district, who either retired or got told to knock it off because they were being looked at by the IG.
Never
I heard some zip codes in the city are exempt from paying water and garbage bills. Per Jeanie Ives
The amount of overtime earned by some of the top earners is almost impossible to attain. If you take into account travel time to and from most would only spend an hour or two at home. How does one function without sleep.
Yes he did
They don’t. I think we all know how this is happening. What about doctors appointments furlo everyday activities
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