The head tax is bad tax policy dressed up as soak-the-rich populism. It’s the kind of thing that sounds good in a City Council speech, but creates real harm for the workers it’s supposed to help. If we want to find more revenues to close our budget gap, we have better options5, and we should focus on them. Chicago tried this before, decided it was a mistake, and eliminated it. We shouldn’t make the same mistake twice.

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