Chicago mayor-elect Brandon Johnson rebukes
‘large corporations’ for poverty,
violence in the city
Fox News,
by
Jeffrey Clark
Original Article
Posted By: NorthernDog,
4/7/2023 9:22:32 AM
Liberal Chicago mayor-elect Brandon Johnson put the blame on violence and poverty in the Windy City on big corporations. "We have large corporations. Seventy percent of large corporations in the city of Chicago — in the state of Illinois, did not pay a corporate tax," Johnson said during a Thursday appearance on CBS Mornings. He argued that low investment in Chicago has led to poverty, which in turn caused violence. "Seventy percent of large corporations in the state of Illinois did not pay a corporate tax. And it's that type of restraint on our budget that has caused the type of
Reply 1 - Posted by:
marbles 4/7/2023 9:24:19 AM (No. 1443053)
Corporations are why there are gangs in Chicago?
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
Pucky1 4/7/2023 9:26:14 AM (No. 1443055)
Let's Go, Brandon! Which came first? The violence or the fleeing?
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
Newtsche 4/7/2023 9:28:28 AM (No. 1443056)
Say what?! Everyone knows poverty and crime in Chicago is Donald Trump's fault.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
PChristopher 4/7/2023 9:30:41 AM (No. 1443059)
This is akin to the Captain of the Titanic blaming the Purser for hitting the iceberg.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
spacer 4/7/2023 9:31:32 AM (No. 1443061)
The picture of this thug and his gang looks like it is right out of Zimbabwe.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
Californian 4/7/2023 9:32:45 AM (No. 1443063)
Let's see, the city gave them a tax break to move in to that hell hole to create jobs so they could have an economy instead of be Detroit and he's now crying about the very same tax breaks required to get them to open doors in his hell hole.
And those tax breaks steal money from the city budget that would otherwise turn Chicago into a liberal paradise. I understand now.
It's Liberal logic in action.
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
Nashman 4/7/2023 9:36:19 AM (No. 1443067)
And the corporations form a line at his door Monday to explain the realities of moving vans.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
seamusm 4/7/2023 9:36:36 AM (No. 1443068)
Credit the Teachers union for this election victory. The only problem is that while teachers and Johnson may have won the election - Chicago at large lost - big time. Further mayhem and crime will decimate the city's tax-base when those horrid corporations flee. Those roosting chicken which are coming home to roost - are crapping everywhere.
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
LC Chihuahua 4/7/2023 9:38:49 AM (No. 1443070)
Another black 'leader' who will fight mostly black lawlessness by cracking down on WHITE collar crime. Johnson and Bragg are following the same playbook. If you value your life, get out of places like Chicago and NYC.
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
formerNYer 4/7/2023 9:44:54 AM (No. 1443079)
I thought the crime in Chicago was committed by criminals, who knew all those CEO's were gang bangin?
Yup, more taxes, that will stop crime, what a stooge.
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
Quigley 4/7/2023 9:48:03 AM (No. 1443088)
I guess he needs to make it illegal for “large corporations” to operate in chicago.
I guess then only large “unincorporated associations” will be allowed to operate there. Like gangs.
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
zephyrgirl 4/7/2023 9:48:43 AM (No. 1443089)
And so it begins. Book your U-Haul or moving van now before the rush gets any worse.
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As Jake Elwood of "Blues Bros." fame said..."We are getting the band back together".
Another Brandon. I already miss Lori Lightfoot.
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
AltaD 4/7/2023 10:02:21 AM (No. 1443101)
FTA: the money for his policies would come from the wealthy, or just those who "have the means" to pay taxes, according to Johnson
Exactly what does "have the means" to pay mean? Is he proposing a 'wealth tax' and if so, how is this implemented?
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Reply 15 - Posted by:
NorthStar 4/7/2023 10:03:39 AM (No. 1443103)
Last company out of Chi town loses!
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Reply 16 - Posted by:
pixelero 4/7/2023 10:05:26 AM (No. 1443105)
Here we go.
Another corrupt minority lefty administration, pounding Colt .45 and thumbing off benjamins to the crew with KFC-sticky fingers using somebody else’s money.
Until they run out of it.
Hard to imagine how much worse it can get in the city— but we’ll find out.
Guess we’ll have to arm-up to go downtown (now more than ever)— wearing a body-cam as a hedge against having to save our own skins.
With only just north of 30% voting this city will get what it deserves— good and hard.
In the words of one ex-New York cop, Secret Service agent, and broadcaster, things just, “haven’t gotten bad enough.”
Yet.
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Reply 17 - Posted by:
Highlander 4/7/2023 10:09:28 AM (No. 1443108)
No socialists like black socialists, especially the South African variety. Chicago will become a true hellhole.
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Reply 18 - Posted by:
Nimby 4/7/2023 10:12:58 AM (No. 1443111)
This is the clown they elected after the other useless mayor? Watch as more corporations move out of the state
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Reply 19 - Posted by:
paral04 4/7/2023 10:13:34 AM (No. 1443112)
Is he saying that if all the corporations left Chicago, the city would be a Paradise?
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Reply 20 - Posted by:
Roscoelewis 4/7/2023 10:17:16 AM (No. 1443116)
Don't worry mayor. Day by day there will be fewer and fewer of those mean, old corporations in your town to deprive your simian brothers of their entitlements.
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Reply 21 - Posted by:
bad-hair 4/7/2023 10:21:29 AM (No. 1443122)
FTA"We have large corporations. Seventy percent of large corporations in the city of Chicago — in the state of Illinois, did not pay a corporate tax," Johnson said during a Thursday appearance on CBS Mornings.
He argued that low investment in Chicago has led to poverty, which in turn caused violence.
"And it's that type of restraint on our budget that has caused the type of disinvestment that has led to poverty, of course that has led to violence." ...
So that low investment will get higher if you tax the investors MORE just before they leave.
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Reply 22 - Posted by:
wilarrbie 4/7/2023 10:25:28 AM (No. 1443124)
Corporations make widgets and sell soap. They are NOT social service centers. Governments that shirk their own obligations cannot point to the job creators as the problem. Look at your schools, look at parenting, look at gov't run social services - THERE is the lack.
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Reply 23 - Posted by:
bighambone 4/7/2023 10:46:38 AM (No. 1443138)
The new Mayor elect in Chicago is not about to pin the out of control crime situation on the criminals and gangs in the Black and Brown communities of Chicago where the vast majority of that very serious crime has been and is taking place. As those minority communities are also where the votes that elected him were cast, and so the Mayor elect is not about to essentially blow the whistle on his voters.
So common sense will tell you it is politically a lot easier and politically advantageous to the Mayor elect to blame the large corporations located in Chicago who did not have votes in the election to help to elect him, and of course “guns” that have and are being used by criminal perpetrators to commit what the Democrats define as being “gun violence” instead of the serious crimes that are defined in the law as being aggravated assault and murder, clearly to deflect attention from the mostly all Black and Brown criminals and street gangs who are committing those serious crimes in Black and Brown communities in Chicago.
The corporations in Chicago still have an option. They can either payoff the corrupt Chicago Democrat political machine and the Mayor elect to get them off their backs, or they can pick up their sticks and decamp out of Chicago to more favorable locations that will welcome them, the jobs they produce, and will not fraudulently claim that corporations are responsible for mass violent crime. When it comes to the Democrat boogeymen of “guns” and “gun violence” being responsible for all or most violent violent crime showing that “guns” should be banned, there is an adage that applies to those Democrat political agendas regarding banning “guns”. That is “if guns are banned, only criminals will have guns” as criminals have always been known not to obey laws. Beyond that there are now currently very strict “gun control” laws already in place in the City of Chicago that obviously only law abiding citizens obey.
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Reply 24 - Posted by:
MickTurn 4/7/2023 11:17:13 AM (No. 1443157)
The Gang payoff's that went to Lightbrain are now going to go to Johnson...count on it.
Corporations will speak with their feet, SEE YA!
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Reply 25 - Posted by:
edgar 4/7/2023 11:22:15 AM (No. 1443160)
FTA "We have large corporations. Seventy percent of large corporations in the city of Chicago — in the state of Illinois, did not pay a corporate tax," Is he referring to city taxes? What are the city taxes that are paid by corporations? My guess is that all city taxes are paid by the corporations. Prove me wrong.
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Reply 26 - Posted by:
shredmaster 4/7/2023 11:25:48 AM (No. 1443163)
Meet the new boss, same as the old boss.
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Reply 27 - Posted by:
TJ54 4/7/2023 11:35:20 AM (No. 1443179)
This would cause move to exit ChitCongo
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Reply 28 - Posted by:
ronbet 4/7/2023 11:36:26 AM (No. 1443180)
Those who voted in Chicago have elected themselves a communist Mayor!! This guy will do unimaginable damage that the city will never recover from.
Too bad there are so many that cannot afford to move out, because Chicago will be nothing but a Hell hole, unfit for anyone to live within. All over for another former great city. This is what happens when Democrats prevail.
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Reply 29 - Posted by:
Birddog 4/7/2023 11:40:14 AM (No. 1443184)
"Smart" Corporations would immediately announce they were closing all Chicago offices, moving to other locations, laying off all workers un-needed in the move, and any resisting moving. That they were selling all properties in the area...at a loss if need be...and taking the loss as a deduction from their taxes.
As an aside...how many of these "Non Tax Paying" corporation do so because they have "Delaware Corporation" status?
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Reply 30 - Posted by:
judy 4/7/2023 11:43:16 AM (No. 1443187)
I have a feeling NY & Chicago will be begging DeBlasio & Lightfoot to return!
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Reply 31 - Posted by:
jalo1951 4/7/2023 11:49:29 AM (No. 1443195)
Like it or not a lot of their problems are self inflicted. You cannot choose to ignore your own education, buddy up to the gangs, raise child after child with no father in the home, believe that welfare is just another life style choice, walk into Walgreen's and steal everything you can get your hands on and not have a problem with that action, hang with people who drink too much, use and sell drugs, carry guns, believe yourself to be a victim, screw around without using protection, believe violence is always the answer, add your favorite here. Blame the source first, blame the individual. Being poor does not mean you do not have standards and rules to live by to the a happy, productive human. Stay in school, at the least get a job, any job. Perhaps for schooling or training for a better job. Get married before you have children. Stop pointing fingers. Chicago you will not be any better off, perhaps worse. Stop making excuses. When you live like a subhuman you become subhuman.
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Reply 32 - Posted by:
mc squared 4/7/2023 11:52:19 AM (No. 1443197)
Is he THAT stupid or lying? Probably both. Any bidnesses. that are still in Chicago should leave and see what happens to crime and poverty.
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Reply 33 - Posted by:
Bennie 4/7/2023 12:19:08 PM (No. 1443206)
Never understood why Boeing moved there? How long before they move to Texas, Florida or North Carolina.
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Reply 34 - Posted by:
daisey 4/7/2023 12:30:28 PM (No. 1443212)
I predict a mass exodus of business, large and
small, and Chicago will make Sam Francisco look glorious. This jerk will finish the destruction of Chicago that Lori started.
7 people like this.
Reply 35 - Posted by:
Socio 4/7/2023 1:08:37 PM (No. 1443229)
He is Lori Lightfoot 2.0.
The blame for violence and poverty in Chicago resides in his mirror, until that is dealt with it will only get worse.
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Reply 36 - Posted by:
Namma 4/7/2023 1:14:43 PM (No. 1443231)
If I was a policemen, I would get the he!! out of sh!tcago! and FAST. This accusation that the new mayor is stating, is very telling.
Calling Elliott Ness, your wanted on Line two!
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Reply 37 - Posted by:
Strike3 4/7/2023 1:20:53 PM (No. 1443239)
He's is correct of course. If Macy's had not built that big store on the Miracle Mile, the hordes of thieving monkeys would not have been enticed to steal all of the shiny objects.
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Reply 38 - Posted by:
privateer 4/7/2023 1:28:12 PM (No. 1443241)
People Of Pallor need to get out now. They've traded Weezy for George.
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Reply 39 - Posted by:
czechlist 4/7/2023 1:33:25 PM (No. 1443244)
In 1968 my grandmother told me "b lacks will destroy this country."
just quoting granny
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Reply 40 - Posted by:
BluesClues 4/7/2023 1:42:46 PM (No. 1443249)
Johnson's just jealous of San Fran. Particularly after the murder of Bob Lee. Think of all that publicity that San Francisco is getting covering the murder of a successful entrepreneur, and murdered with a knife, not even an evil gun. Hell, Chicago is known for murders of blacks and gangbangers, not successful business people. Looks like Johnson is trying to fix that.
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Reply 41 - Posted by:
PIApilot 4/7/2023 1:55:09 PM (No. 1443251)
Corporations have been leaving Chicago - and Illinois - because of stances such as this. I guess this makes him popular with his base but doesn't do anything to bring those tax paying companies and citizens to his city. I moved out of Illinois over 10 years ago after living there for over 20 years. The best view of Chicago and Illinois is the one in the rear view mirror.
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So let me get this straight: politicians create tax laws to favor corporations who in turn give donations to said politicians,.....corporations follow the laws to avoid taxation......politicians then criticize the corporations for not paying taxes the laws they themselves passed allow the corporations to avoid......GOT IT !!
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Reply 43 - Posted by:
cheeflo 4/7/2023 4:08:31 PM (No. 1443302)
Of course he does.
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Reply 44 - Posted by:
cor-vet 4/7/2023 5:12:08 PM (No. 1443330)
Yea, a large corporation called the "Democrat Party!"
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Reply 45 - Posted by:
Ruthless 4/7/2023 6:37:00 PM (No. 1443371)
Poverty doesn't cause violence. Violence causes poverty. The new mayor hasn't a clue, same as the old mayor.
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Reply 46 - Posted by:
DVC 4/7/2023 7:25:59 PM (No. 1443387)
I predict large corporations moving out of Chicago.
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Reply 47 - Posted by:
Norway 4/7/2023 9:27:50 PM (No. 1443436)
The problem isn't corporations, It's-- 1.) babies born out of wedlock, 2.) No fathers. 3.) a culture that says education and hard work are 'white' 4.) drug and thug ubiquitous rap music 5.) Releasing felons instead of prosecuting them. 6.) Defunding the police. 7.) A huge welfare/entitlement culture.8.) Leftist solutions that have caused these problems and make them worse.
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Reply 48 - Posted by:
mifla 4/8/2023 3:27:11 AM (No. 1443544)
Throw money at the problem and blame the evil rich.
SSDD.
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