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Chicago given many painful ways to escape budget mess
City income tax, Lake Shore Drive tolls, higher ambulance fees among options suggested by inspector general
As Mayor Rahm Emanuel prepares to present his first budget next month, Chicago Inspector General Joseph Ferguson is tossing out dozens of ways to raise more money and cut the size of city government.
Many of them are politically poisonous: a city income tax, tolls on Lake Shore Drive, higher ambulance fees. Others could conceivably gain traction: making garbage pickup more efficient, cutting layers of management and making all city employees work 40 hours a week.
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A city income tax. Drive more productive people out.
Tolls on LSD - let's spend a couple million to redo the streets for toll booths that won't ever be paid for.
Higher ambulance fees - what are people paying property taxes for, anyway?
Efficient and unions go together like Barack Osama and patriotic.
Cutting layers of management? Where do all those sons-in-law and uncles go?
Rahm Emanuel is beginning to see what a clusterf**k Daley's Machine has left. How long before he start blaming Bush?
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