On Wednesday, as the city council performed its annual ritual of approving the mayor’s budget, I was wondering how I’d vote, if I were an alderman.
And, as such, jacking up property taxes by well over $600 million this year alone—let’s not forget the TIF surcharge, people—is the least regressive alternative we have at our immediate disposal.
In other words, for all of its awfulness, this budget is better than the alternative of falling further and further into debt. Which just shows how monumentally messed up we really are.
Plus, he’s still keeping us in the dark regarding his role in that scandal by refusing to release crucial emails.
Plus, every time anyone proposes one of these taxes as a solution, he rips them for being unrealistic on the grounds that they require approval from Springfield. And everyone knows Springfield’s dysfunctional.
In conclusion, I guess you could say I’d be one of the 14 aldermen who voted no, as opposed to the 36 who voted yes.
