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re: Facing a $1.5B budget deficit, Chicago’s mayor proposes some new taxes…social media tax
Posted on 10/16/25 at 9:08 pm to SPEEDY
Posted on 10/16/25 at 9:08 pm to SPEEDY
quote:
Social media companies in Chicago who have over 100,000 users will relocate out of the city, so the tax will be useless
I'm pretty sure you're reading that wrong. It's a charge "per active user", often defined as someone who has been on the social network in, say, the last 30 days. So if Facebook has 1MM active users the city would somehow tax Facebook 1,000,000-100,000 = 900,000 x $0.50 = $450,000 per year.
But I'm confused how they would tax Facebook for their active users. I'm also not sure how the city would quantify how many active users Facebook has in the area, unless they can somehow force FB to release that data.
This post was edited on 10/16/25 at 9:10 pm
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Posted on 10/16/25 at 9:13 pm to Chucktown_Badger
I'm pretty sure this
and this
Are not one and the same. Also, I love he just suggests that all big companies are making obscene amounts of money. I'm not sure if he's that stupid or knows his base will believe it, or both
So glad I saw the writing on the wall and get the hell out of there. We need to keep a conservative in the White House so the rest of us are not bailing out these absolutely insane progressive hellholes.
quote:
"We are asking the top 3% of the absolute largest corporations in our city, those who have seen tremendous success and exceedingly high profits, to chip in so that we can build a safer city for all of Chicago," Johnson said.
and this
quote:
The Community Safety Surcharge would apply to companies with more than 100 employees.
Are not one and the same. Also, I love he just suggests that all big companies are making obscene amounts of money. I'm not sure if he's that stupid or knows his base will believe it, or both
So glad I saw the writing on the wall and get the hell out of there. We need to keep a conservative in the White House so the rest of us are not bailing out these absolutely insane progressive hellholes.
This post was edited on 10/16/25 at 9:15 pm
Posted on 10/16/25 at 9:34 pm to SPEEDY
Just when you think the progs have hit rock bottom they somehow come up with even dumber shite that will further destroy the people they claim to help. It really is amazing to watch from afar.
Posted on 10/16/25 at 9:51 pm to SPEEDY
quote:
The mayor's office expects the proposed tax to generate $31 million.
Still way short of a $1.5 billion shortfall
What a moron
Posted on 10/16/25 at 9:59 pm to SPEEDY
Healthcare for all those illegals is expensive
Posted on 10/16/25 at 10:02 pm to SPEEDY
Democrats would tax a rock if they could squeeze it out of it
Posted on 10/16/25 at 10:05 pm to wfallstiger
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He comes close to being one of the worst politicians I have ever seen. He comes across as functionally retarded
This clown, Temu Obama, lovely Maxine Waters, Pastor Sharpton, the dumbass that got escorted out of Trumps speech (can't think of his name) just to name a few all have one thing in common.....well actually three. They are dims, they are stupid and then the other one.
Posted on 10/16/25 at 10:36 pm to duckblind56
Can the social media companies just cut access to Chicago?
Posted on 10/16/25 at 10:54 pm to shaqtaw
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Can the social media companies just cut access to Chicago?
Unless they are setup in Chicago, legally their tax is not passable. A simple user tax at least. They cannot tax FB because someone used FB in the city limits.
They could do taxes on targeted ad revenue and marketplace of FB
Posted on 10/16/25 at 11:16 pm to SPEEDY
Social media should geo lock or fence Chicago. That will please his voters.
Posted on 10/17/25 at 12:42 am to wfallstiger
When your mantra is Protecting Chicago Budget you know exactly where the mayor’s priorities are - and it’s not what the tax payers are asking for: public safety, health, infrastructure and transportation.
Posted on 10/17/25 at 2:01 am to SPEEDY
Them brothers and especially pissed off Sistas at the council meetings in Chicago are gonna be pure comedy at the next board meetings.
I love them folks. At least the finally see it
I love them folks. At least the finally see it
Posted on 10/17/25 at 5:26 am to wfallstiger
quote:I read it as hate and incompetence (but I guess it could be retardation). I mean the Supreme Court Justice proclaimed they were all disabled. Surprised they were still getting Covid money but was that not something that had an end date that they should have known? I’m sorry but this is just incompetence to be that much in debt for a city? Good thing Dems weren’t in charge. They would have bailed them out in a single crying whim by this incompetent mayor.
He comes close to being one of the worst politicians I have ever seen. He comes across as functionally retarded
Posted on 10/17/25 at 5:43 am to SPEEDY
quote:
Facing a $1.5B budget deficit
Raising taxes and not a single word about reducing the deficit. Just increased spending.
I think i spotted the problem.
Posted on 10/17/25 at 5:54 am to SPEEDY
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The tax would charge social media companies 50 cents per active user over 100,000 in Chicago. The mayor's office expects the proposed tax to generate $31 million.
I eagerly await the linguistic gymnastics needed to attempt to explain how this works. :kern:
Posted on 10/17/25 at 5:59 am to SPEEDY
Could social media companies block Chicagoan's from accessing their social media platforms?
Posted on 10/17/25 at 6:08 am to SPEEDY
What are the requirements needed to run for mayor of one of these cities ?
Being Black ?
These people are freaking idiots
Being Black ?
These people are freaking idiots
Posted on 10/17/25 at 6:24 am to SPEEDY
The amount of money they will be forced to spend defending the social media tax will cripple the supposed receipts they will receive.. Elon will fight this through every imaginable avenue.. it’s a tax that screams… you can’t take these people seriously… the amount of privacy issues in collecting the relevant data to set the tax is grounds alone to not comply.
Posted on 10/17/25 at 7:33 am to SPEEDY
So the budget has increased on average by a billion a year since 2019 and they can't cut back 1.15 of that 6 billion total increase?
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