Quote:
Originally Posted by moorhosj1
This isn't wrong, it's just completely one-sided. Of course that is Johnson's attack angle on Vallas, why wouldn't it be? Vallas opened that door with the statements he has made. Just as Johnson did with his past "Defund" comments.
Meanwhile, Vallas is lying about Johnson's tax proposal. He isn't proposing a city income tax as Vallas advertisements are claiming.
Vallas is relying on fairy dust to pay for his priorities (rather than tax increases). Where is his "budget" proposal, is it anymore than half-baked thoughts? How much will his 1,800 new cops cost? Rough math: 1,800 new officers * $100k salary and $100k benefits = $360 million of new annual spending). How will this be funded? What is his Plan B if he can't hire those new officers? I think it's important to hold each candidate to the same standard.
I'm leaning towards Vallas, but everyone acting like he has some well-spelled out plan while Johnson is only talking about MAGA is silly. They are both bad candidates with personal baggage and expensive plans for the city. |
The reason why people think that Johnson is proposing a city Income tax is because Johnson aligns himself with an org proposing it. There were some articles written saying that Johnson aligns with it and maybe erroneously reported it. Although I seem to remember Johnson saying he's OK with it, only to push back later. The thing about Johnson is that it's great he's gone back on some of the boneheaded plans he had (like a Metra commuter tax) but instead of say "we looked at it , and determined it's not a great idea" he just is like "I never said that." which is ridiculous as some of those things are definitely on record as things said. It's 2023 not 1923.
And yes, Vallas' plans kind of beg the question "where does the money come from?" But realize that for politics, campaigns are run on empty promises. I sure hope you know this at least. I stopped taking seriously a lot of spending plans years ago. But both of these guys will realize that there's an entire process ro follow and they aren't Kings.
IMO Vallas is running a little bit more of a truthful campaign whether people like it or not. Johnson is basically drumming up votes based on promising all.sorts of good things, knowing he won't be able to deliver most of them. Now he's pulling back on them. Vallas is doing this to a much less extent and I appreciate the fact that he's BS'ing less at least.
Threaded Mode