Can we just remember that they pay $0 in property taxes today? Any property tax they pay is more than they pay today.
Do they want a property tax “break”? Yes! They are investing BILLIONS and want a certain level of cost certainty in order to do so.
The property + other tax revenues this project will generate over the same timeframe will FAR exceed any “break” they may receive.
Welcome to Illinois where the @illinoisdems is more than happy to cut off their nose despite their face.
Yet another reason it’s #TexasForTheWin
The best part of my Saturday is unfollowing you.
You are no longer my Governor. I have left @Chicago and #Illinois in large part due to your BS.
By moving to a more cost of living friendly state I am now keeping not only the 4.95% state of Illinois income tax in my pocket but saving significantly more in sales taxes and other fees.
#TexasForTheWin
WATCH: Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker heavily criticizes Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson’s team this morning for their handling of the Chicago Bears deal and lobbying state government in general.
“I know that the mayor has no plan. He has come up with no plan at all about how the Bears would end up in the city of Chicago. So that’s problematic. I’d love them to be in the city but we are three years in now and he still has no plan.”
“The mayor has shown up every spring at the end of session to pronounce what he would like to see happen. As you know the budget gets put together starting in November…I present that budget to the legislature in February. So that seems like a good time period to come talk to the governor’s office. Then there’s February to May. There’s all that time to come talk to the legislature, which has my budget in hand, or the governor’s office.”
“Again, we’ve seen almost nothing out of the mayoral administration here on that subject or really any other. So to show up in May and have a bunch of demands seems like late in the game. And it’s unfortunate that’s happened most years.”
Johnson’s chief of external affairs is Kennedy Bartley, who formerly worked as a Chicago Teachers Union-funded organizer for police and prison abolition. The mayor’s former top lobbyist, Sydney Holman, resigned in 2024 after Johnson elevated Bartley to oversee the mayor’s office of intergovernmental affairs.
I’m taking my productivity (and my tax revenue) to TX.
I’m not being negative about Chicago or Illinois - I’m just tired of how poorly it’s being run & how much it costs to live here.
.@illinoisdems, specifically @GovPritzker, tell half truths and flat out lies about the state of the state in order to keep getting reelected. It’s a bunch of smoke & mirrors and, in the end, when all the “other people’s money” leave, the ones you claim to be fighting for are going to be the ones holding the bag.
If you’re not part of the solution YOU are the problem. (Wonder if your boss knows you’re telling people to leave the state?)
@SeanMMorrison
#TexasOrBust
If @chicago is and has been ranked #1, then why aren’t they coming?
Why is our office vacancy rate so high that buildings are being converted to residential or being foreclosed on?
Why aren’t corporations beating a path to our door?
- high cost of living
- lack of quality public education
- #DSA policies under @ChicagosMayor @ @ProgressiveChi
- overall lawlessness
Wake up!
#TexasOrBust
Honest question for @ChicagosMayor, @Ward33Chicago and all the other @ProgressiveChi members:
“How can you be soaking the rich & failing the poor so badly?”
Hey, @chicago, politicians who identify as #DSA have NO CLUE what they’re doing but, if you allow them to keep doing it, it will be the “bottom 50%” holding the bag when it’s all over.
Think about that this November and in February, 2027 when you vote.
Nothing will change until YOU elect to change it!
#TexasOrBust
@EndWokeness@John_Kass We are now making up laws.
Rather than working to solve the problem….
Yet another member of the @ProgressiveChi cos-playing as a politician.
When will enough be enough?
Rather than leading the charge to revisit and modify the SAFE-T Act, @KwameRaoul has elected to stay silent about the system that allowed an individual awaiting trial(s) for multiple felonies to be released - resulting in the murder of a @chicago police officer and attempted murder of another.
When will enough be enough?
It's time for the current @ILAttyGeneral along with every other @illinoisdems to be voted out of office.
When will the radical left take a 101 level economics class?
It’s not #TaxTheRich. It’s eliminate the loopholes that reduce their efficiency tax rate.
Oh, wait, if you do that you will turn the rich in California, New York, Illinois and every other “deep blue”, radical left state against the idea.
So, until then……….
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