(CHICAGO) –Mayor Brandon Johnson and the City Council are still far apart on reaching an agreement on a spending plan for next year.
Much of the disagreement focuses on the mayor’s plan to collect $21 per person per month from every company with more than 100 workers in the city but Ald. Ray Lopez (15th) says the mayor on Monday suggested something more.
“What we saw yesterday was that he originally said that he wanted a $21 head tax, now he wants a $33 head tax on roughly 200 companies,” Lopez told the Ray Stevens Show on WLS-AM 890.
The mayor has rebranded the so called “head tax” as the “Community Safety Surcharge.
More than a dozen aldermen disagree with the plan and have suggested alternate tax ideas.
