Being Chicago’s worst mayor ever is a notable achievement and Mayor Brandon Johnson is looking to cement that win by trying to stage the city’s first ever government shutdown.
Granted, shutting down Chicago’s government could hardly make it any worse (there’s a reason they set The Dark Night in Chicago), but Mayor Johnson’s cause is particularly mad. Like most radicals, Johnson wants more money to spend on his various causes and grafts, but the city is short of money and just about everything you can tax has already been taxed.
(Chicago innovated a Netflix tax. The current rate is 9% on streaming services.)
Since Chicago’s economy isn’t wrecked enough, Mayor Johnson is adamant about passing a ‘head tax’ on companies that hire employees. It doesn’t take a genius economist to figure out why this is a bad idea. You tax things that you either want to suppress (sin taxes) or things people can’t do without (income taxes) but companies can do without employees. At least in Chicago.
With AI beginning to kick in, this seems like the worst possible time to persuade companies to lower their number of employees.
But Mayor Brandon Johnson claims he’s fighting for working people and how better than to take the government hostage in order to deprive them of their work?
