It’s hard to find a tax hike that the Illinois Democratic Establishment balks at, but Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson seems to have done it with his plan to start taxing businesses per person employed in the city, at a rate that has already increased once to $33, up from $21 in his first version of the plan.

We give Pritzker full credit for actually getting this one right:

“I am absolutely four-square opposed to a head tax for the city of Chicago,” Pritzker said, to applause, during a talk at the Economic Club of Chicago. “It penalizes the very thing that we want, which is we want more employment.”

But riddle us this. If Putzker knows taxing work and hiring is a bad idea, why does he keep pushing a progressive income tax?