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Podcast: WBEZ News
Episode: Mayor Johnson pitches new taxes, but no property tax increase in budget proposal
Description: Mayor Brandon Johnson gave an impassioned budget address today, pitching his $16.6 billion dollar spending plan as a clapback to quote- “unprecedented” attacks on Chicago by President Donald Trump.
The proposal does not rely on a property tax increase to close a massive deficit.
Instead, Johnson is pitching a corporate head tax, a social media tax, a yacht tax, and more in the proposal applauded by council progressives, but slammed by council critics.
Here with us to unpack it all is City Hall reporter Mariah Woelfel.
HOST: LARA