Chicago’s laws can be confusing, even to the folks who make them. And in a city scraping for pennies to stay afloat, a pair of grand palaces of culture can attract attention. Like glittering Fabergé eggs, just sitting there looking rich.
The caucus submitted a motion that struck the whole paragraph out.
Which suggests that he hasn’t been hanging out with the music lovers in the $30 seats in the upper balconies.
But it could reappear. The city’s search for new sources of revenue won’t be over anytime soon, and expansion of the amusement tax is an idea that surfaces periodically. The Inspector General’s office examined a much broader proposed expansion of it a few years back.
That’ll be a good thing. And if the city gets any more desperate for money, they could just apply his “exorbitant” executive salary test to those other nonprofits, to help them decide who should really be exempt from the amusement tax.
