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2015-09-05 Government

Rahm Emanuel proposes record-breaking set of tax hikes to save city

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Posted by Besoeker 2015-09-05 02:05|| || Front Page|| [1 views ] Top

#1 Run the last remnant of productive citizenry out?

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2015-09-05 07:02|| 2015-09-05 07:02|| Front Page Top

Unionization will save the city. Ask someone how you can join today.

Posted by Besoeker 2015-09-05 07:07|| 2015-09-05 07:07|| Front Page Top

#3 The tipping point will be Boeing moving its corporate headquarters again, not back to Seattle, but to Charlotte, NC.

Posted by M. Murcek 2015-09-05 08:19|| 2015-09-05 08:19|| Front Page Top

#4 Maybe Emanuel should consider resigning and tossing out the rest of the political elite before leaving.

Posted by JohnQC 2015-09-05 10:13|| 2015-09-05 10:13|| Front Page Top

#5 Chicago: The New Greece

Posted by Blossom Unains5562 2015-09-05 10:23|| 2015-09-05 10:23|| Front Page Top

#6 Because that is exactly what is needed to attract new business and convince people to stay.

Take more of their money.

The only thing the left knows how to do is to steal what belongs to someone else.

Posted by DarthVader 2015-09-05 11:26|| 2015-09-05 11:26|| Front Page Top

#7 Fuck em, they re-elected that shit head.

Until the average citizen learns that voting for a Democrat means higher taxes, higher crime, and lower services, this type of therapy is needed.

Here in California, the citizenry has been 1984ed into believing anything. Of course, the MSM and television here NEVER reports anything about what is going on with the state government. Heck, we never learn about a new tax until it has been approved and they start collecting it.

Posted by Bill Clinton 2015-09-05 11:49|| 2015-09-05 11:49|| Front Page Top

#8 Until the average citizen learns that voting for a Democrat means higher taxes, higher crime, and lower services, this type of therapy is needed.

So true. One might even think that most of the crime is being done by the Donks--inside and outside of government.

Posted by JohnQC 2015-09-05 14:03|| 2015-09-05 14:03|| Front Page Top

#9 That ought to work to turn things around. Yep.

Posted by Ebbart Glererong5900 2015-09-05 14:22|| 2015-09-05 14:22|| Front Page Top

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