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.