“What happened in Oregon is not good news for Oregon. They believe that anybody who makes $125,000 or more [annually] or businesses or anyone who makes $250,000 — they’re gonna start taxing them. They call them ‘rich people,’ ” the mayor said.
Daley said Oregon’s tax blunder spells opportunity for Chicago.
“It will help our economic development immediately. You’d better believe it. We’ll be out in Oregon enticing corporations to relocate to Chicago. I’ll be very frank. I make no bones about that. If those states want to do that, so be it,” he said.
The Chicago mayor gets it, unlike so-called "progressives" here in Oregon. The Portland Business Journal picked up the Sun-Times article and ran with it, claiming that Daley intends to "poach" Oregon businesses. That's just silly. The Chicago mayor recognizes opportunity, and he goes after it. That's why Boeing relocated its headquarters from Seattle-Everett to Chicago.
And Portland handed the mayor some prime, low-hanging fruit.
As Coyote, over at NW Republican noted: This sure did not take long. To which over-ripe fruit Jack Roberts tut-tutted that we need to keep things in context. Anyone who moves from Oregon to Chicago for tax reasons should fire their accountant. He goes on to claim that because Chicagoland's combined business tax rates are only half a point lower than Oregon's, it would be a dumb idea for any business to move there. This only serves to demonstrate that Jack is a podunk politician who could never stand against someone like Daley. Roberts goes on to crack that if Daley is anything like his father was, companies would pay more in graft than they would by staying in Oregon.
Jack, let me fill you in, as I lived in Illinois for a number of years and you haven't: Politicians there may play the you scratch my back; I'll scratch yours game - but a mayor who serially raped a 14-year-old girl would find himself not in the governor's office, but at the bottom of Lake Michigan. Ditto for a mayor who groomed a 17-year-old boy for sex.
How long did your pals play along with Goldschmidt?
Before you go poking at Illinois politicians, Jack - take a good cold look at the cesspool in which you've been paddling around for the past few decades.
3 of 4 recent Illinois governors are in jail. So explain that, bozolina
Posted by: kari | January 30, 2010 at 10:10 PM
Easy to do: 1) the IL state attorneys general (unlike here in Oregon) actually do their jobs. They prosecute and win on cases of influence peddling. 2) Not one of the former governors was convicted of child rape - a charge which Goldschmidt admitted. Nor have any of them groomed a kid for sex, as has Portland mayor Sam Adams. The Oregon state attorney general investigated the Adams incidents, and although he opted not to file, he did not exonerate Adams.
Let us know when you get ready to graduate from kindergarten.
Posted by: Max | January 31, 2010 at 03:35 PM