Budget Showdown

So the City Council called Conehead's hand and passed a budget without his head tax:

• A renegade coalition of conservative and moderate City Council members opposed to Mayor Brandon Johnson’s corporate head tax has decisively passed a budget balanced without the policy detested by Chicago’s business community.

  The Council voted 30-18 Saturday to pass the spending portion of an opposition plan that Johnson’s office has said could require midyear cuts because of faulty revenue projections.

  The defiant passage left the question of whether Johnson will become the first Chicago mayor in three decades — since the city’s first Black mayor, Harold Washington — to veto an annual budget ordinance.

  Johnson didn’t signal his next move on a budget he’s called “morally bankrupt.”

  “I do think that this proposal is ill-conceived. It sends the wrong message to struggling Chicagoans, and it will not produce the lofty revenue goals that are assumed in this budget,” Johnson told the deeply divided chamber during a rare weekend meeting.

There hasn't been a Chicago budget, let alone a County or State budget in Illinois (or any of a dozen other states we could name) that didn't base spending on "lofty revenue goals" that never came to fruition. That's why certain blue state / blue city shitholes are carrying tens (and hundreds) of billions of dollars in unsustainable bond debt.

We notice that pretty much all of the budget proposals don't say a word about cutting expenditures, merely raising taxes and fees or instituting new ones instead of closing underutilized schools and slashing those $75 million aldermanic "menus" that are conduits for all sorts of graft and corruption.