Chicago’s incoming liberal mayor has already raised eyebrows by blaming the city’s poverty problems and surging crime rates on businesses that don’t pay tax.
Brandon Johnson, a former union organizer who was elected on Tuesday, said the city doesn’t have money to solve its problem because ’70 percent of large corporations in the state of Illinois don’t pay a corporate tax’.
‘It’s that type of restraint on our budget that has caused the type if disinvestment that has led to poverty, of course that has led to violence,’ said Johnson, who didn’t give the source for his claim.
