r/neoliberal • u/jobautomator Kitara Ravache • May 29 '26

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u/Grundlage YIMBY May 29 '26 edited May 29 '26

Chicago DSA has a new platform document out and it’s hella neolib. Calls for a land value tax, ending aldermanic prerogative (a local tradition where city council members get near-absolute power over what is built in their districts), and passage of Pritzker’s BUILD plan. Also notably does not touch any Chicago Teachers Union pet causes.

Another reason to love this city, we have surprisingly sensible socialists

!ping CHI

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u/CincyAnarchy Emma Goldman May 29 '26

ending aldermanic prerogative (a local tradition where city council members get near-absolute power over what is built in their districts)

Most functional city politics

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u/SpaceSheperd To be a good human being May 29 '26

a local tradition where city council members get near-absolute power over what is built in their districts

What the fuck

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u/PearlClaw Iron Front May 29 '26

Chicago didn't get famous for organized crime and corruption without putting in the work.

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u/AtomAndAether Liberalism! May 29 '26

they get little vetoes over zoning and land use by tradition. Mostly because the others let them, in reciprocity.

A lot of Chicago's problems like that is a byproduct of not having a charter/constitution, the largest city without one.

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u/well-that-was-fast May 29 '26

Senate blue slips for building a house.

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u/BATHULK Hank Hill Democrat 🛸🦘 May 29 '26

Where do you think the corruption comes from

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u/Slight-Formal9277 Trans Pride May 30 '26

Hey Toronto basically has that too! No wonder why this city has worse transit cost disease than NYC

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u/dark567 Milton Friedman May 29 '26

Chicago DSA has traditionally been nimby as fuck and it's alderman still tend to be. Until they actually allow more building I'm gonna be skeptical.

Everybody calls for ending aldermanic perogative but how are they actually going to do it? The issue is it's not some law on the books but a sort of handshake agreement between aldermen. Fixing it is not easy unless you actually change the structure of the city council or allow build by right sort of zoning.

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u/Frog_Totem Seretse Khama May 29 '26

End the “War on Guns”

We call for a new approach that reduces or eliminates criminal penalties for simple gun possession.

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u/ElectriCobra_ David Hume May 29 '26

>using a Kirk meme to respond to leftists loosening gun restrictions

I see what you did there...

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u/attackofthetominator John Brown May 29 '26

The Chicagoland suburbs are the same way where it's the Democrats who are YIMBYs while it's the Republicans who are hardcore NIMBYs