CHICAGO — Mayor Brandon Johnson met with reporters Thursday as he continues to stand behind his cooperate head tax proposal for the city's budget.

This corporate head tax charges big businesses a fixed fee per employee. Some aldermen and business groups are widely against it.

Johnson says the tax burden shouldn't be placed on working class families.

"I don’t think its an unreasonable service for 3% of our largest cooperations that have 100 or more employess, that are full time, to pay their fair share. Look, I made a commitment to the people of Chicago that we're going to invest in them, and that we're going to challenge those with means to put more skin in the game. But I also made a commitment that we're not going to continue to balance budgets off the backs of working people. There's

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