The incompetence is shocking

 

          Just put your hand up and give me that money. And don't be given me non of your shit. 

From Second City Coppers

Groot Wants MORE Money

And instead of getting it by opening

the economy, she's going after your wallets:

• Mayor Lori Lightfoot, who campaigned on a pledge to end Chicago’s “addiction” to fines and fees, is counting on a big increase in city collections from speeding tickets and other violations to balance her 2021 budget.

  And she wants part of the boost to the bottom line to come from speed cameras across Chicago issuing speeding tickets to drivers caught going as little as 6 miles per hour over the posted limit.

  Under the mayor’s proposal, as part of her 2021 budget package, anyone caught by a camera driving from 6 to 9 mph above the limit would get a warning. Getting caught on camera a second time would prompt a $35 ticket in the mail.

  Currently, only those caught driving 10 mph above the limit get the $35 tickets. Tickets of $100 are issued to drivers caught speeding by 11 mph or more above the posted limit. The city has the authority to issue the tickets at lower speeds, but has never used it.

Groot ran on a promise to break the City's habit of relying on fines and fees. But in the midst of a disaster of her (and her party's own making) she's using what has been used by previous administrations - along with "voodoo" numbers she pulls out of her ass:

• According to budget documents released this week as the mayor unveiled her spending proposal for next year, the city expects to bring in $381.5 million in 2021 from fines, forfeitures and penalties. That’s about $38 million more than Lightfoot’s administration projected for 2020. 
  

Did you follow that? Her budget just comes up with an additional $38 million THAT DOESN'T EVEN EXIST, and decides, "Hey, Speed Cameras can generate this revenue" without any actual evidence it will work. That would be like you or us saying, "We're going to buy a summer house, motorcycle, boat and jet ski this year. We need $400K. Our salary is currently $85K. The rest will be paid by our blackjack winnings at the Horseshoe in Indiana." 

Never mind that we don't have anywhere near the stake necessary to pull it off....and we don't play blackjack well enough to win. We've know what we want, so we'll just go out and take on monstrous debt instead of maybe cutting some household costs and taking on a third job.