If nothing else, Mayor Brandon Johnson’s budget address Wednesday shows what happens when lofty campaign promises meet the reality of governance.
Johnson’s proposed $16.6 billion budget still promises goodies without raising property taxes, but gone for now is his campaign pledge to fund “investments in people” with $800 million in new and higher taxes — a promise that was unpopular with the business community and some rank-and-file taxpayers and consumers who feared the cost of new taxes would be passed down to them.
