Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson seeks to punish companies for hiring employees by reviving ‘head tax’ – Twitchy

Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson wants to punish companies for daring to thrive and expand in the windy city. He is exploring adding a “capital tax” that would charge businesses with more than 100 employees $21 per person each month. It is anti-business, anti-growth, anti-employment, and of course anti-common sense. That’s why Johnson wants it so badly.

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Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson is now proposing a new “capital tax” to fix the deficit after destroying their budget.

All businesses that employ more than 100 people in Chicago will have to pay a tax of $21 per employee per month, simply for having employees.

Penalty for hiring people. pic.twitter.com/yS4OyuGvlj

– Geiger Capital (@Geiger_Capital) October 16, 2025

Chicago’s head tax was a fee levied on businesses based on the number of employees they had, originally imposed in 1973. It was phased out in 2014 over concerns that it discouraged employment and economic growth, but Mayor Brandon Johnson proposed reviving it in 2025 as… pic.twitter.com/OAFCJ8HMDs

– Clayton Pope (@PygmyClay) October 16, 2025

(Post follows)…Part of the new budget plan to address the large budget deficit.

It is a sure sign of a failure of leadership on Johnson’s part.

One poster explains the punishment a person receives if they try to live a good life in Chicago, and who gets the money in the end.

So, let me understand this directly:

– They tax what you earn.
– They charge a tax on what you buy.
-They impose a tax on your property.
– They spend it on illegal immigrants, open welfare, and social engineering, and get themselves into massive debt.
– The only answer is taxes on hiring people?

– FanaticalMdrate (@FnaticalMdrate) October 16, 2025

Pretty much.

— 𝗖ᴀʟʟ𝗦ɪɢɴ𝗚ʀɪᴍ1𝗖ᴍᴇᴛʜ ♞ (@HeadCasePatriot) October 16, 2025

Democrats love to terrorize law-abiding people to fund their illegal aliens and reward criminality.

One poster responds sarcastically to Johnson’s economic folly; Others then list the many ways companies can respond.

I can’t see any downside to this.

– Gruntdoc (@gruntdoc) October 16, 2025

If you’re in the bottom 20% of a 120-employee company, the downside hits you right in the face.

— 🐺 (@LeighWolf) October 16, 2025

As the old saying goes, if you tax something, you’ll get less of it. See the problem now?

– AmericanIpa8 (@AmericanIpa8) October 17, 2025

Very funny. A group of people who were planning to settle in Chicago have just changed their minds. This is how incentives work.

—Eupidad (@Eupidad) October 16, 2025

Do you see companies moving out of Chicago as a downside…with your tax base eroding further?

– Lawson McClester….L (@LawsonMclester) October 16, 2025

The companies suddenly had 99 employees and 1,037 “independent contractors” who suddenly lost all their benefits…

— EJ Anthony, Ph.D. (@RealEJAntoni) October 16, 2025

Or companies pay it, and raise prices. So this is just a tax on the everyday consumer.

– Average Joe (@Average_Joe67) October 16, 2025

For established companies, this last option seems the most likely. With companies with 100 employees seeing an annual tax increase of at least $25,200 just for daring to create jobs, they have to cover this punitive tax somehow. It is easier to raise prices and pass that tax on to consumers.

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