Before you go off raising taxes on everything that makes this city fun, might I make a suggestion?

How about we not use city funds to tear down perfectly good airports that bring in income during the cover of darkness that midnight provides to make room for your butt-kissing memorial parks?

How about we base contracts off of an honest-to-goodness closed bidding process where small and minority businesses are encouraged to compete for projects instead of giving business to your cousins and buddies who misappropriate the city�s funds by buying $50,000 vehicles that just sit there?

How about we support things like opening Walmart in the poorest parts of the city where people there can have jobs and everyday low prices instead of holding off support until our brother�s law firm starts representing Walmart?

I know this city is known for its corruption and that you seemingly take pride in it with your actions, but can we for half a second consider what changes can be made before we start taxing the bejesus out of the everyday people?

A 9% sales tax is ridiculous.

Another percent on already-inflated prices for entertainment venues is absurd.

Car rental taxes are already something like 20% when all is said and done, and you want to add another dollar per day?

I suppose that tripling the tax on cigarettes is an attempt to make people quit?

And the alcohol...

Being that we�re a city of tourists and young people, that�s a mainstay for so many businesses. They can�t rightfully charge $6 for a glass of beer, and your extra thirty cents per gallon cuts right into their profits. Bars make up a large number of small business owners in the city, and you�re gouging them even more than before.

STOP IT ALREADY!

We�ve established that you choose butt-kissing to income production, favoritism over healthy competition, oppressing the poor unless it favors you or your loved ones, and that you�re unfriendly toward small businesses.

And yet you *still* get elected!

It�s ridiculous and sad that such a small number of people go to the polls when you�re on the ballot and yet you receive most of the votes to maintain your corrupt, self-serving position. By hiding under the mask of the democratic party -- the party that supposedly helps those in need -- you are an absolute farce. And I�ve had enough.

Come time for the mayoral ballots, I�ll be in line with my little hole puncher to ensure your name isn�t chosen by as large a margin, and I�ll bring my friends too. And eventually, after a few election days pass and my friends get their friends and their friends� friends to also show up, maybe, just maybe you�ll eventually be asked to pack your bags and leave office.

When the corruption affects the wallets of everyday people, it must stop. Your time has come.

Insolently,
ChicagoJo
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