Suddenly, Mayor Daley is Pandering Against Taxes?

October 18, 2009 | Filed Under Budget, Capitalism, Chicago, Cook County, Crime, Democrats/Leftists, Elections, Government, Corruption, Illinois, Liberals, State Government, Taxes, Warner Todd Huston |

-By Warner Todd Huston

The Olympics was going to save the day. Then President Obama and wife Michelle made fools of themselves telling the Olympic committee how the Olympics would make them happy because they love sports, and they sat on their daddy’s laps watching sports, and they really, really, really love the Olympics. One vote and out was the president’s reward for wasting millions of the taxpayer’s money flying them to Copenhagen.

This presented a major problem for Mayor Daley, soon to run for reelection. He was hoping against hope that the Olympics would sweep into Chicago and save his floundering budget. The infusion of cash stolen from the American taxpayers and state taxpayers both would have floated King Daley’s criminal enterprises for another few years at least and make his election a dream.

But that pipe dream has gone up in smoke, hasn’t it?

And now comes Mayor Daley’s pandering to the voters. No tax hike, he says. He is the knight on the white horse, he says. He won’t raise taxes because times are so darn tough. The voters can’t take it any more he claims. And he, King Daley, will valiantly lead the charge against tax hikes.

Gosh how we are all so grateful. I mean, it isn’t as if Chicago isn’t already one of the highest taxed cities in the highest taxed county in the country. Amazingly, all the hundreds of other times he’s raised taxes on the people of the city are to go unmentioned.

So why is the taxmonger-in-chief so suddenly against raising taxes as he has done so very often in the past?

Can we remember that he is running for mayor again?

Can we ask if this sudden aversion to his normal tax-hiking persona is but a pandering to the voters?

Could it be?

You tell me.
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Warner Todd Huston is a Chicago based freelance writer, has been writing opinion editorials and social criticism since early 2001 and is featured on many websites such as RightWingNews.com, CanadaFreePress.com, StoptheACLU.com, TheRealityCheck.org, RedState.com, Human Events Magazine, AmericanDailyReview.com, and the New Media Journal, among many, many others. Additionally, he has been a frequent guest on talk-radio programs to discuss his opinion editorials and current events and is currently the co-host of “Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Conservatism” heard on BlogTalkRadio. Warner is also the editor of the Cook County Page for RedCounty.com.

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