'Johnson already wants to cut — sorry, “redirect” — $150 million from the Chicago Police Department as the city continues to experience violent year after violent year. In 138 days this year, Chicago has seen 205 homicides.' -ZacharyFaria
The liberal group Action Center on Race and the Economy issued its own budget plan that “shares many of the goals Johnson campaigned on,” according to local news outlets. This is not a surprise, given that one of the two authors of the plan is a member of Johnson’s transition team. In case you need any hints as to how bad the plan is, it is titled “First We Get the Money.
Progressive allies of Mayor Brandon Johnson have released a financial blueprint titled - and I'm not joking -"First We Get the Money" calling for $12 billion in new taxes, including:Quadrupling the tax on jet fuel.… pic.twitter.com/lRoQOZP58a — Tom Bevan May 17, 2023 Johnson already wants to cut — sorry, “redirect” — $150 million from the Chicago Police Department as the city continues to experience violent year after violent year. In 138 days this year, Chicago has seen 205 homicides.
On that same note, ACRE proposes getting $150 million by eliminating 1,000 vacant positions in CPD, even though the department is understaffed. The plan also calls for a 9% budget cut for the CPD for each of the next four years, cutting $538 million by the time Johnson is up for reelection.Johnson decided to distance himself from the plan, even though he already supports several of the proposals and, again, one of the co-writers is a member of his transition team.
Johnson only wants to avoid association with the budget plan put forward by his liberal allies, but he supports higher taxes in several areas, including areas put forward by the plan, and he supports defunding the police. The only limit on how much of that plan he can pursue is the limit he puts on himself to avoid backlash from voters. Even he doesn’t want to risk giving Chicago voters the left-wing path that they chose for themselves, or at least the honesty of it.
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