Editorial: Meet the new ‘head tax’: Brandon Johnson’s business levy could cause companies to flee for the suburbs

Mayor Brandon Johnson’s administration has been hunting frantically for politically palatable tax hikes to replace the $300 million property tax increase Chicago aldermen rejected unanimously last week. One of the heftiest proposals on the table is an increase in the personal property lease tax on cloud computing — bear with us, we’ll explain what that is in English — which the mayor’s office …