But when it comes to forking over $2.3 billion—at least—to the world’s richest man who runs the world’s biggest corporation, money’s no problem. Party like a rock star!
Here’s a sample from a 2018 Tribune editorial, which in retrospect reads like a scene from the lusty romance novel Fifty Shades of Grey . . .
I mention this just in case any of my brothers and sisters at my beloved Chicago Teachers Union actually believed Toni was the true-blue progressive they made her out to be in this year’s mayoral election.
In fact, I can make the argument that hiring nurses, librarians, and counselors would be a greater bang for our economic development buck than giving billions to Bezos. The nurses would actually have to live in Chicago (what with residency requirements). They’d shop locally, and pay property taxes, and so forth.
So now it’s just Arlington. And you want to know what happened to those 25,000 jobs? Well, check out this recent story by Kimberly Adams of Marketplace.
