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> If you like the thrill of gunshots on your way to work, Chicago’s tax rate is 1.86%. For the record I live in NYC and there were gunshots Sunday morning a b
by yolesaber 10y ago
> If you like the thrill of gunshots on your way to work, Chicago’s tax rate is 1.86%.
For the record I live in NYC and there were gunshots Sunday morning a block from my house
- ghostly_s 10y agoAnd gun violence is quite rare in the great majority of neighborhoods middle-class people inhabit in Chicago. An ignorant pointless dig like this is not building much authorial credibility.
- tsaoutourpants 10y agoAuthor here. The murder rate in Chicago is about 3.5x that of NYC... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_United_States_cities_by_crime_rate_(2014) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_United_States_cities_b... Anyway, the point was not which city was safer, but that compared to virtually any major city in the U.S., New York's tax rates are several times higher.
- ghostly_s 10y agoYou're casually implying that the tradeoff for the more affordable rent in Chicago is a greater likelihood of being the victim of gun violence. While it is a major problem, that's not the nature of gun violence here. It is highly localized to communities below the poverty level. If you're willing to casually and irresponsibly reduce the Chicago gun violence issue to a flip claim like this, then I have little faith in your ability to faithfully summarize the taxation situation (which seems to be a correct deduction based on the holes everyone is pointing out here.)