... 100, 130% increase in your assessed valuation, and thus your property tax bill.

Yeah, look, uh, look, uh, Johnson is just all rhetoric.

Um, the city has lost, uh, well over 250,000 Black residents in the last 20 years, and, and, uh, and, uh, the exodus has been overwhelmingly Black middle-class families with children.

The Black population right now, the Black adult population right now i- is 14% lower than it was 20 years ago, but the Black, uh, children population is 47% lower than it was, uh, 20 years ago.

What does that tell you? They are leaving, and they're leaving for three reasons.

They're leaving because of high crime, high taxes, and bad schools.

It's as simple as that.

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But first, Paul, if I could just get your comment on what's going on in terms of crime in the city.

Yeah, absolutely.

Let me point out that, uh, um, uh, post COVID, um, violent crime across the country fell to pre COVID levels.

In fact, Chicago up until, uh, Burke getting, replacing the incompetent Fox as the state's attorney, Chicago's decline was about half that of the nation.

Once Burke got elected and stopped her, like, catch and release policies, et cetera, Chicago then fell in the line.

So what you're seeing is a return to pre-COVID crime levels, crime levels that continue to make Chicago the number one city in in the United States in the number of murders, the number of attempted murders, the number of violent crimes, the number of school age shootings and school age children shot and the number of mass shootings.

In fact, if Chicago were a state, Chicago would be number two in the nation, second only to California, in mass shootings.

Ishbaya?

Yeah

... about, about my criticism of his COVID mitigation.

I mean, he literally had a long tablet because apparently he hires someone to monitor, uh, what is said on your show.

So it, it was the most fascinating thing.

Uh, for, for a guy worth $6 billion, I mean, that's what he does.

I mean, talking about paranoia.

But the point is, uh, look, uh, he not only imposed the most draconian COVID shutdown in the country, for which Illinois has received an F grade by these national, uh, uh, uh, th- these national research institutions that have looked at, uh, uh, state COVID responses.

I mean, that's what, that's what Pritzker does, that's what the left does.

Or people go in jail, like George Ryan

... uh, but, you know, now it's, I mean, the question is, is the media gonna do their homework this time around? Plus, you know, look, I mean, uh, where are you on the issues? Now, there, there's certainly s- time to articulate w- what you're gonna do about the Chicago Public Schools, what you're gonna do about public safety, about crime, what you're gonna do about corruption, uh, in, in, uh, you know, in city government, you know, what you're gonna do, uh, uh, um, uh, about economic development, what you're gonna do to, uh, to transform the, the economic policies that are actually driving businesses away from the city of Chicago.

I mean, the dramatic shift, you know, everybody talks about and the mayor brags about how he's holding the line on taxes, but last year, property taxes on resident, on, on residential property grew by almost $600 million.

There's been a dramatic tax shift to homeowners and renters.

Uh, Chicago has seen some of the highest rent increases in the country, driven in large part because of the higher property taxes.

Well, what are you gonna do about those things? It's a-

... and you can text us.

Yeah.

So them coming back now, 10 years later, saying their owed money is complete garbage.

Yeah, it's complete garbage.

Let me also point out that if you look at the budget book, their very own budget book, the Chicago Public Schools last year had one full-time employee for every 6.9 students.

One full-time.

And they have more non-teaching employees than they have teachers.

In fact, they have 24,000 non-teacher employees.

Incidentally, that's 12,000 more employees than the city of Chicago has cost.

But what's going to happen come August 29th? She said the bill's dead on arrival or the budget's dead on arrival.

up 6% this year.

Let me point out that post-COVID, the murder rate dropped across the nation, as we well know.

Chicago's decline was half that of the nation.

Since Burke has gotten elected, the murder rate in Chicago has fallen to the levels that they have fallen nationally, and that's because Burke, if you look at all the statistics...

You know, the jail population has returned to the pre-COVID level.

So clearly, clearly she has been much more aggressive than Fox in keeping dangerous criminals off the street, which is why, Dan, she is being attacked, why they're accusing her of not going after ICE agents.

I mean, they're, you know, why they're accusing her of having abandoned Fox's policies of, you know, releasing individuals for alleged police misconduct, despite the fact that They've never had to offer any proof that they've been innocent.

Well, why? What did he say? Why shouldn't