As He Tries To Dodge Question On Taxes
“It sounds great on paper, but how do you pay for it? Chicago, as you know, is headed toward a major deficit in 2024. You say you’re not going to raise taxes, but you have talked about perhaps other ways to raise money, including property taxes,” Duthiers said.
“I’m not going to raise property taxes,” Johnson said. “That’s been the lazy form of governance for a very long time in the city of Chicago and, quite frankly, around the country. The words that President Biden indicated in his [State of the] Union address, he said that a teacher and a firefighter should not pay the same tax rate as a millionaire and a billionaire.”
“So you’re not going to raise property taxes, but you will have to raise taxes?”
“Well, what we’re gonna have to do is to find the revenue from individuals that have the means to actually contribute to a safer city,” Johnson said. “Seventy-percent of large corporations in the state of Illinois did not pay a corporate tax.”
So the mayor wants to tax business ... which ALWAYS pass on to consumers
“It sounds great on paper, but how do you pay for it? Chicago, as you know, is headed toward a major deficit in 2024. You say you’re not going to raise taxes, but you have talked about perhaps other ways to raise money, including property taxes,” Duthiers said.
“I’m not going to raise property taxes,” Johnson said. “That’s been the lazy form of governance for a very long time in the city of Chicago and, quite frankly, around the country. The words that President Biden indicated in his [State of the] Union address, he said that a teacher and a firefighter should not pay the same tax rate as a millionaire and a billionaire.”
“So you’re not going to raise property taxes, but you will have to raise taxes?”
“Well, what we’re gonna have to do is to find the revenue from individuals that have the means to actually contribute to a safer city,” Johnson said. “Seventy-percent of large corporations in the state of Illinois did not pay a corporate tax.”
So the mayor wants to tax business ... which ALWAYS pass on to consumers