Destroy the Tax Base!
The headline:
- At City Club, Mayor Brandon Johnson asks why rich put profits over ‘the lives of my neighbors’
The simple answer:
- because your neighbors don't contribute much to society
The article (password protected) - is essentially just a demand for more money - a strategy that will cause corporations to leave Chicago faster:
Mayor Brandon Johnson accused the city’s corporate class of ignoring Black and brown lives Wednesday in a wide-ranging speech to a crowd of business leaders who cheered his ideas but greeted with silence his promise to pay for them by taxing the rich.
The appearance at the City Club of Chicago was Johnson’s first major public speech since announcing his reelection campaign a little over two weeks ago, and signals that he is entering his fight for a second term — and his fourth budget — with as feisty a message as ever.
Channel 7 also writes about more efforts to further degrade the city tax base:
- Mayor Brandon Johnson used a campaign-style speech before the City Club on Wednesday to argue that Chicago's upcoming election is a battle between working people and the ultra-rich, warning that crime could increase if corporations are not asked to contribute more.
Higher taxes will cause corporations (and upper echelon taxpayers) to leave the city.
Coincidentally, so would higher crime numbers as evidenced by the past few mayoral administrations.
So this seems like more of a public service announcement that the corporate class ought to work moving expenses into their operating budgets if Conehead actually wins.
Labels: money questions
posted by SCC at 12:07 AM
100 Comments:
because your neighbor is a toothless junky looking for his next rock and drains the system what a moron mayor we have.
If I was a rich business man sitting there I would light my cigar with 100 dollar bill in front of him and tell him "see ya BITCH".
I'm off too Tennessee.
What’s the mental midget yelling about? Reminds me of Brick Tamland from Anchor Man.
"Mayor Brandon Johnson used a campaign-style speech before the City Club on Wednesday to argue that Chicago's upcoming election is a battle between working people and the ultra-rich, warning that crime could increase if corporations are not asked to contribute more."
This is the same old tired refrain that the Democrats always use. They try to convince the working class they are suffering because the rich are doing well. What they don't mention is that some rich people worked their asses off to gain wealth. Isn't this what capitalism is? So in their view those people should be punished by taking money away from them. Sounds like Communism. Comrade Conehead would like that money to go to the government so he can make everyone equal. Of course the ruling class (the politicians, just like in China, North Korea, Cuba et al) get much more because they are "tasked" with administering the program!
So if corporations don't contribute more, crime could increase. Corporations are in business to make a profit and pass those profits on to their shareholders.
Conehead turned everything around saying crime could increase if the corporations don't contribute more. This is backwards, the City should be crushing crime so businesses can thrive here (and not leave) instead of HIM failing to provide that. He really reminds me of those two master shake down artists, the "Revs", Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton.
Has any major police department, over 200 cops had a contestant on a dating show even be in consideration for their Chief??? Has anyone seen this clown lately with his spray tan, capped teeth, hair plugs and inability to write a case report?
The City Club of Chicago should have kicked this narcissistic boob out of the meeting. He has no idea of business workings in Chicago.
warning that crime could increase if corporations are not asked to contribute more.
What the actual f*ck?!?! How about investing in the teaching of morals & values and less sounding like dude on the street during a armed robbery. You what dis is, give me dats
Marxists don’t give a damn about negative consequences, as long as their pie in the sky agenda gains traction, no matter who or what suffers.
More money just means more six-figure jobs for his friends, family and donors.
because your neighbors don't contribute much to society... besides crime
Black lives don't matter to black people, and no one else's do either. Handouts contribute nothing to the city, this is 2026, you need an education - unless of course your vocation has merit promotions for those that don't have one.
How many Billions have been spent/allocated by the city for black and brown communities over the last 40 years? How does it look? Perhaps Brandon Johnson should go after black corporations, black millionaires, black athletes and ask to give. In fact I would like to see an accurate study depicting how much real money the wealthy black culture and business give. I think we would be shocked by the results. Little to nothing.
So if a corporation doesn't pony up the consequences might be violence ? What about the rest of the people in Chicago. Is the Asian, Middle Eastern, Italian and Caucasian community in on the extortion profits from big companies or is it for special groups like the free school supplies and gun turn in Visa cards.
they want more black and brown people employed so they can run that business like the smooth running, ever efficient post office,,,, (sarcasm)
Just the snippets reported by SCC sound more like Jessi Jackson threats and strong-arm tactics than anything else. The Ghetto Mayor isn’t even original.
Give them squat
Producers/ consumers (parasites), simple to understand.
Tennessee is filling up with companies coming from this corruption field state. When we lost Ken Griffin multibillionaire to Miami so much money millions of dollars vanished from the city. Here’s a guy that gave millions to the former mayor to use to fight crime, but as usual, the mayor is so idiotic refused to use the money for that so he just moved along with so many other companies. Did you also see how in and out a multi billion dollar company 2000+ employees moved out of California built a brand new headquarters in Tennessee relocated all the employees they were so happy to get out of California same as they are out of this garbage State. I was just listening to the radio this morning. They were talking about we all know the only people that voted for the Democratic governor trust fund baby are injured Vagle otherwise we would have a republican governor somebody responsible
Imagine a society without the perpetual welfare class.
Former Chicagoan Billionaire Ken Griffin just gave Carnegie Mellon U 3 BILLION dolllars.to build 2 campuses. He was ran out by crime and soft on crime mayors policies. You can’t have both more money to fight crime but well it’s just kids being kids
Brandon Joh son is a failure. He’s been part of CPS for years. Their budget is over $10B a year. CPS kids are graduating and they can’t read and can’t do math. That’s why they resort to violence and crime, because they are uneducated. All these CPS employees many who are black and brown are calling these kids every year and just keep asking for more money in their budget. Screw them fire all the teachers and start over.
Johnson has also failed on housing. He built like 75 apartment units for over $600k apiece! That’s ridiculous! There is no way public housing should cost that much.
Johnson and all the Dems keep asking for more money every year no matter what. They wasting tax dollars on failed policy.
The city, county and state receive plenty of tax revenue to run their entities. The problem is they don’t know how to do it properly and the dollars are wasted.
No more taxes period!
Your neighbors CONTRIBUTE NOTHING but a burden to taxpayers.
It's OK. Your "neighbors" are too busy shooting each other and selling each other drugs to notice much of anything else.
...and how many officers are you, personally, protected by at our expense while we get pushed off "L" platforms?
Nothing further.
Interesting choice of words here:
"warning that crime could increase if corporations are not asked to contribute more"
That sounds like a threat. Similar to the way certain politicians from certain countries warn about terrorist attacks if other countries do not abide by their policies. I wonder who BJ's actual advisors are. Just an observation.
-Not a cop.
WTF. Why wont this stupid mf'er racist STFU and just go away
They love to lump brown people aka Hispanics in with them, we are not like you! We are proud established community that doesn’t need a handout, we will work for our success!
Clueless. Simply clueless.
“The lives of MY neighbors “ Gee what does that mean? Arrogant A Hole.
More Black Liberation Theology speak. Just when I think Brandon can't be any more of a dumbass, he raises the ante.
And that is definitely the correct answer, SCC
You can't ignore the black and brown community, if you do they will blow your brains out just to joyride in your car.
Putting people to work so that they are too tired at the end of the day to drill one another is what Conehead SHOULD be considering. Chasing off the tax base that creates job (at least jobs for the willing to work and WANT to work) is stupid. He makes it sound like every 3rd person is uber rich and in reality, not even close to being true anyhow. Dunce cap fits nice over a conehead.
He complains about disinvestment, yet when businesses invest in the community, they suffer from crime and violence. Why would any business invest in that type of environment?
So, Basicaly Conehead is campaigning for four more year os Socialism. No Thanks...
Just sold the house. Off to a RED state
That's racist......
The f’d up part is the welfare whores will vote for him if it means more free shit.
Didn't Tony Soprano use the same tactic? Yep, he sure did. More proof government in the new mob, they have all the rackets now, protection even.
Give a man a fish, and you feed him for a day; show him how to catch fish, and you feed him for a lifetime.
This proverbial saying suggests that the ability to work is of greater benefit than a one-off handout.
If you can stand to watch it, here is the video of the speech in question at the City Club:
https://vimeo.com/1231822910?fl=pl&fe=cm
I couldn't figure out how to scrape the transcript. Maybe you will.
You can hear CITADELS Ken Griffen laughing all the way from Miami
At every turn, this City’s political class heads in the exact opposite direction that I would go. The once thriving business district of 25 years ago is all but dead. The future of this City is bleak. All these Democrats, Socialists, and Marxists are to blame.
I have zero respect for racist unqualified souless on welfare. There are whole criminal generations brought up on welfare that have contributed zero to normal society. That's why normal working taxpayers want nothing to do with them.
Conehead never had a job in the real economy, he's been a public employee his entire career. school teacher-union stooge-politician. Never owned a business, never managed a business. To him, "profit" is just money he has not taxed yet.
Sounds like a desperate extortionist...play book page#1. See you later numb nuts Brando.
Speaking of the "rich", Crook County property taxes are due today. The Chicago Public Schools (CPS) teach for 9 months of the year or the schools are open for only three quarters or 3/4ths of the year. Democrat Socialists of America love the poll tested buzzword of "accountability" so lets take affirmative action and reduce the Board of Education's taxing districts fair share to 75% of the current taxing obligation. After all, their CPS "business" only operates a mere 9 months out of the year. With all that extra money, the working law abiding middle class can then pay off their red light camera tickets, parking meter fines, school zone/park zone speeding tickets, city sticker obligations, and toll road obligations with some change left over making affordability possible right before the most honest elections in history. Affordability I can live with.
Let’s start by closing any CPS school that’s at least 50% filled.
Brandon Johnson should be pushing a broom on the fifth floor not sitting in Mayor’s office. All this from a man who couldn’t pay his water bill on time. What a deadbeat.
Maybe if Black and Brown people got an education, they could build wealth and not live in poverty. Thanks, CTU, for social promotion to fill seats in half empty schools.
Perhaps the mayor can ask the governor how tax shelters work for the ultra wealthy to hide their income from the tax man. .
So tired of hearing how we (tax payers) have to give more to black and brown people. F!@# that! Let them earn it, like us hard working caucasians.
Just wondering what the successful black businesses in Chicago think about that?
See how well this philosophy works for you ....
Went to call at assisted living/section 8 bldg a resident/patient was lighting 1 dollar bills on fire - money burns fast and more easily than u would think
It's NOT just Corporations are leaving!
I'm leaving this spiraling toilet bowl with my Pension and Assets, and moving to a Red area of the country with common sense and enforced laws!
"....warning that crime could increase if corporations are not asked to contribute more."
Well now that sounds just like extortion to me.
Can you imagine the mayor running the fed, setting interest rates, printing money?
Fuck him and his neighbors
"What they don't mention is that some rich people worked their asses off to gain wealth..." What about Pritzker? Brandon? The shake down politicians? As you mention, the fake Revs, their fake churches, Chicago Public Schools, China investors and on and on
F*ck the neighbors
my question would be, why are they still here now? How much more of these communists do people need to see before they leave?
Chicago is teetering on financial collapse as it is now and this incompetent ignoramus is going to run more corporations out of the city for the sake of some lowlife parasites that contribute nothing whatsoever to society !
Because your community is a drunk ho looking for a pimp to take care of her.
it's always about redistributing wealth and not creating wealth. If his neighbors are productive th
All BJ really conveyed was that he is an incompetent moron who should be replaced.
Well Done, you imbecile.
Johnson is just trying to boost support among his base. Apparently a 6% approval rating won't get him reelected.
Crime is baked into The Left's business plan. It's a useful wedge against law abiding citizens. Quite literally, if Democrats actually solved the problems they claim to care about, they'd put themselves out of business. We can't have that, can we?
Did BLM Brandon get hopes hair and makeup did to the tune of 30k before he went to the City Club?
His understanding of economics and the common good is at about the level of a fifth grader.
How many Deputy Mayors does Chicago have? What do they do? How much are they paid? Do their make up reflect the Chicago population?
As he walks right back into the mayor’s office, watch and see, he heard it here first Brandon will win. The seed is already there. The vote will be split so many different ways.
Better hope and pray the Pension stays funded because if he gets a chance that will be gone also
Paradise.
…” injured Vagle”? What is this nonsense?
that's racist.....
You must be a pretty terrible driver if red light & speeding cam tickets are cutting into your budget with such severity.
Goggle translater...
Street talk says....
Fuck you...pay me !
that's a good slogan,,,, gives me more money to fight crime or I will create more crime,,,,
Why he put Illegals over citizens?????
What is this pilot program where we are paying property taxes that people on west and south sides can’t ? Is this legal ? Does city council need to vote ?
MOST people who look at this forum work! Period. End of story. "If you don't work, you don't eat" seems to have gone by the wayside, for sure! Only makes me want to keep more of what I've got. I worked for it vs those who never worked. Give an inch and they want a foot. Never happy. Never satisfied! Pathetic!
Trillions not billions. I started my career in 1970 on 63rd and stony. War zone. And its worse now 56 years later. Ghetto doing what it does best. Destroy other people's stuff. Fuck that illiterate moron.
How many companies and jobs did he bring from the junket to London, right at the same time the Chicago Bears played a football game there?
You Tube Michael C Steel,
Don't care who supe is. What I do care about is LT and Commanders jacking off on suspending officers on the watch with petty spars, forcing the sergeants to write people up for little things.
Congrats. May you and your family enjoy your new home with more money in your pockets. Good for you
All this worthless nimrod does is cry the race card constantly. Thats all his gimmick is based on, his campaigns, everything. It’s absolutely exhausting. But of course, da community will support him simply because of his color. Period.
I wonder if Conehead uses Maybelline makeup foundation from Walgreens? He probably has it delivered by the box full.
Don't even get me started on the post office employees. Fucking idiots can barely read or speak proper English.
Losing Citadel and Griffin was huge. You can’t replace what he could have done for Chicago. Shows the incompetence and ignorance of Johnson and Pritzker. Evidently they only like illegals and criminals.
"Destroy the tax base?" Yes, indeed.
The document describes the collapse and destruction of many historic buildings and areas in Johannesburg, South Africa. It provides photos showing the dilapidated state of locations like the Wits Drill Hall, Bree Street, Yeoville, Hillbrow, Joubert Park, and Oppenheimer Park. Many buildings that were once popular venues or landmarks, like hotels, shops, and statues, are now abandoned ruins with smashed windows, gutted interiors, and trash in the streets. The document laments the decline of Johannesburg under the "New South Africa."
https://www.slideshare.net/slideshow/the-death-of-johannesburg-8835174/8835174
...or...
Apocalypse, New Jersey: A Dispatch From America’s Most Desperate Town, by Matt Taibbi
No jobs, no hope - and surveillance cameras everywhere. The strange, sad story of Camden
https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-news/apocalypse-new-jersey-a-dispatch-from-americas-most-desperate-town-56174/
Multiply 100-fold throughout America's many radical-led, blue state sinkholes - too busy handing out free needles and "defunding the police" to fix the streets.
Lets be honest..he was NEVER really a "Teacher"
It’s all Black and Brown to “them” all day long.
Well, maybe, just maybe, follow some of the rules, and you might not have the problems you have.
It ain’t rocket science.
Don't ya love how the once great and honest Chicago new media hide all the blk crime/cover up and kiss mayor johnson's ass. Notice the staff of incompetents that read the news or do reporting now. Miss the 70's/80's.? Florida is welcoming you.
Amen!!!
True dat. BC the hardworking black citizens have already moved out of this city, leaving only the dependent welfare class left (and maybe a few teachers) to vote for him. What say you, liberal lakefront warriors? Had enough yet? Has he ruined the place enough, or you gonna double-up on him a second time?
Come on down to 5715 W Superior and take a look at Conehead’s neighbors—the ones supposedly “contributing so much to society. Drive up and down Chicago Ave and see the same people posted up on the corners 24/7. And the best part? Conehead’s own neighbors didn’t even vote for him and are probably counting down the days until the detail finally ends
Rover Clear!!!!
Just remember, he'll "Fight Trump" and "Abolish I.C.E."
Even Conehead's mama used to refer to him as "That big DUMMY!"
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