[GUEST ACCESS MODE: Data is scrambled or limited to provide examples. Make requests using your API key to unlock full data. Check https://lunarcrush.ai/auth for authentication information.] #  @Austin__Berg Austin Berg Austin Berg posts on X about city of, unrealized gains, capital gains, people with the most. They currently have XXXXXX followers and XX posts still getting attention that total XXXXXX engagements in the last XX hours. ### Engagements: XXXXXX [#](/creator/twitter::296673736/interactions)  - X Week XXXXXXX -XX% - X Month XXXXXXXXX +30% - X Months XXXXXXXXX -XX% - X Year XXXXXXXXXX +17% ### Mentions: XX [#](/creator/twitter::296673736/posts_active)  - X Week XX -X% - X Month XX no change - X Months XXX -XXXX% - X Year XXX +18% ### Followers: XXXXXX [#](/creator/twitter::296673736/followers)  - X Week XXXXXX +0.38% - X Month XXXXXX +1.30% - X Months XXXXXX +10% - X Year XXXXXX +52% ### CreatorRank: XXXXXXX [#](/creator/twitter::296673736/influencer_rank)  ### Social Influence [#](/creator/twitter::296673736/influence) --- **Social category influence** [finance](/list/finance) #2982 **Social topic influence** [city of](/topic/city-of) #444, [unrealized gains](/topic/unrealized-gains) #1, [capital gains](/topic/capital-gains) #2, [people with](/topic/people-with) #37, [the only](/topic/the-only) #226, [tax for](/topic/tax-for) 10%, [heads](/topic/heads) #286, [chapter 11](/topic/chapter-11) #639, [rates](/topic/rates) 5%, [$100m](/topic/$100m) X% **Top accounts mentioned or mentioned by** [@krobinson7077](/creator/undefined) [@roberts26862145](/creator/undefined) [@jjeffrey100](/creator/undefined) [@blackjack_hawk](/creator/undefined) [@cityjournal](/creator/undefined) [@kchappellnews](/creator/undefined) [@jaredwalczak](/creator/undefined) [@taxfoundation](/creator/undefined) [@billdubs](/creator/undefined) [@cannachi](/creator/undefined) [@akidfromohio](/creator/undefined) [@ohiostorking](/creator/undefined) [@katiescarlet2](/creator/undefined) [@cappigblueline2](/creator/undefined) [@northsider1060](/creator/undefined) [@douglas_tress](/creator/undefined) [@__bgg](/creator/undefined) [@fbirnazis](/creator/undefined) [@kellydunnahoo](/creator/undefined) [@tsaucybottom](/creator/undefined) **Top assets mentioned** [Hundred Million (100M)](/topic/$100m) ### Top Social Posts [#](/creator/twitter::296673736/posts) --- Top posts by engagements in the last XX hours "BREAKING: Delayed property tax collections have forced emergency lending into Chicagos pension funds in order to avoid asset sales. The Chicago firefighters pension fund did not have the cash on hand to pay *current retirees.* This is what insolvency looks like. And its exactly why Chicago CFO Jill Jaworski and Mayor Brandon Johnson should have been screaming from the rooftops to oppose the pension sweetener bill just passed in Springfield that dropped the police and fire pensions to XX% fundedthe worst in the nation" [X Link](https://x.com/Austin__Berg/status/1968056007374028932) [@Austin__Berg](/creator/x/Austin__Berg) 2025-09-16T20:54Z 15.5K followers, 541.2K engagements "WATCH: Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson confirms his head tax proposal does not apply to workers who spend XX% of workdays in the city. This clip raises three major problems with Johnsons head tax 🚩 Punishing back-to-office: This will uniquely penalize in-office work at a time when downtown is still experiencing record-high vacancy rates. 🚩 This wont raise $100M: Its clear from their answers here that the mayor and Budget Director Annette Guzman did not take into account remote work when creating the $100M revenue estimate. 🚩 Punishing blue-collar work: A restaurant with XXX employees" [X Link](https://x.com/Austin__Berg/status/1983229175700795454) [@Austin__Berg](/creator/x/Austin__Berg) 2025-10-28T17:47Z 15.5K followers, 120.4K engagements "Great to join @kchappellnews this morning for her story on the utter mess of Cook County property tax bills this year. We're calling for an investigation by the Cook County inspector general into why Tyler Technologies continued to rake in record-breaking contracts from county government despite shoddy work and missing deadlines" [X Link](https://x.com/Austin__Berg/status/1967980223070458078) [@Austin__Berg](/creator/x/Austin__Berg) 2025-09-16T15:53Z 15.5K followers, 37.6K engagements "The business community should help fund community safety. They already pay the highest commercial real estate taxes in the country and the second-highest corporate income tax in the country. The problem is Chicago has the worst GDP growth of any major metro and just hit a five-year low in hiring expectations. So we cant afford to chase away businesses that could grow jobs here" [X Link](https://x.com/Austin__Berg/status/1983285181013254196) [@Austin__Berg](/creator/x/Austin__Berg) 2025-10-28T21:30Z 15.5K followers, XXX engagements "NEW: The first domino toward insolvency for distressed local governments across Illinois just tipped. Last night the city of Harvey unanimously passed an ordinance seeking state oversight under Illinois Financially Distressed City Law. Heres what that means and why it matters 🧵" [X Link](https://x.com/Austin__Berg/status/1979197575845515487) [@Austin__Berg](/creator/x/Austin__Berg) 2025-10-17T14:47Z 15.5K followers, 94.9K engagements "WATCH: Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker seems like a hard no on the $1.5B tax increase package introduced by the Illinois House last night including the proposal to charge a new unprecedented tax on unrealized gains. As it is its not going forward" [X Link](https://x.com/Austin__Berg/status/1983573414603296994) [@Austin__Berg](/creator/x/Austin__Berg) 2025-10-29T16:35Z 15.5K followers, 87.2K engagements "NEW: Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson will call for several tax hikes in his budget address today according to a leaked copy of his press release. They include 🚩 Reviving Chicagos head tax (a tax per job that the city eliminated in 2014) as a community safety surcharge and imposing it on all companies employing over XXX people in Chicago. 🚩 Hiking the citys X% cloud tax on electronically delivered or cloud-hosted software. We are the only big city in the country with this type of tax which has been cited by tech businesses as a reason not to invest in Chicago. 🚩 Expanding the citys amusement" [X Link](https://x.com/Austin__Berg/status/1978824814941863961) [@Austin__Berg](/creator/x/Austin__Berg) 2025-10-16T14:06Z 15.5K followers, 414K engagements "WATCH: Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker comes out strongly today against Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnsons head tax proposal. I am absolutely foursquare opposed to a head tax for the city of Chicago. It penalizes the very thing that we want which is more employment in the city of Chicago. It makes it very hard to attract companies from outside the city to come in and harder for companies already here to stay. Pritzker also said Johnson needs to work harder to find efficiencies in the city budget rather than threatening the economic growth of the city and state with a new tax on jobs. Balancing the" [X Link](https://x.com/Austin__Berg/status/1980723654351810669) [@Austin__Berg](/creator/x/Austin__Berg) 2025-10-21T19:51Z 15.5K followers, 200.1K engagements "WATCH: South suburban Harvey Illinois just furloughed XX% of its city workforce. The Cook County sheriffs office is now dispatching officers to Harvey to cover patrols. Harvey is seeking financial oversight from the state. But under Illinois Financially Distressed City Law Harvey cant do anything about the pension debt thats suffocating the city and eating up basic public safety services. Harvey needs Chapter X bankruptcy protection to restructure the citys debts and begin their comeback. But Illinois state law does not currently allow for Chapter X. So Harvey remains stuck in a chronic" [X Link](https://x.com/Austin__Berg/status/1983176679435415806) [@Austin__Berg](/creator/x/Austin__Berg) 2025-10-28T14:19Z 15.5K followers, 93.4K engagements "NEW: Illinois lawmakers just introduced a new wealth tax on *unrealized* capital gains for people with over $X billion in assets. They are trying to pass it before the scheduled end of veto session on Thursday. 🚩We would be the only state in the nation to impose this kind of tax. 🚩It raises an estimated $296M in revenue. I wouldnt trust that estimate but in any event the much more severe cost would be to chase every billionaire and their taxable income out of the state. 🚩There are no protections preventing lawmakers from moving that bracket downward. It may start with billionaires but it" [X Link](https://x.com/Austin__Berg/status/1983511886558601528) [@Austin__Berg](/creator/x/Austin__Berg) 2025-10-29T12:31Z 15.5K followers, 263.2K engagements "UPDATE: The revenue package including a new tax on unrealized gains just passed out of the Illinois House Executive Committee on an 8-4 partisan roll call (8D-4R). It now heads to the House floor" [X Link](https://x.com/Austin__Berg/status/1983627160285003960) [@Austin__Berg](/creator/x/Austin__Berg) 2025-10-29T20:09Z 15.5K followers, 31.5K engagements "@JaredWalczak @TaxFoundation Update x5: Just passed out of committee in the House" [X Link](https://x.com/Austin__Berg/status/1983627305219190825) [@Austin__Berg](/creator/x/Austin__Berg) 2025-10-29T20:09Z 15.5K followers, 10.8K engagements "NEW: A majority of Chicago City Council members are now opposed to Mayor Brandon Johnsons head tax proposal. XX of XX alderman just signed a letter rejecting the head tax and asking the mayor to consider efficiencies found in the Ernst & Young report commissioned by the mayors office. Thank you to everyone who contacted their City Council member on this issue You made a huge difference Aldermen who signed Brian Hopkins (2nd) Pat Dowell (3rd) Desmon Yancy (5th) Greg Mitchell (7th) Anthony Beale (9th) Peter Chico (10th) Nicole Lee (11th) Marty Quinn (13th) Ray Lopez (15th) Stephanie Coleman" [X Link](https://x.com/Austin__Berg/status/1983922450636103939) [@Austin__Berg](/creator/x/Austin__Berg) 2025-10-30T15:42Z 15.5K followers, 66.1K engagements
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@Austin__Berg Austin Berg
Austin Berg posts on X about city of, unrealized gains, capital gains, people with the most. They currently have XXXXXX followers and XX posts still getting attention that total XXXXXX engagements in the last XX hours.
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- X Month XXXXXXXXX +30%
- X Months XXXXXXXXX -XX%
- X Year XXXXXXXXXX +17%
Mentions: XX #
- X Week XX -X%
- X Month XX no change
- X Months XXX -XXXX%
- X Year XXX +18%
Followers: XXXXXX #
- X Week XXXXXX +0.38%
- X Month XXXXXX +1.30%
- X Months XXXXXX +10%
- X Year XXXXXX +52%
CreatorRank: XXXXXXX #
Social Influence #
Social category influence finance #2982
Social topic influence city of #444, unrealized gains #1, capital gains #2, people with #37, the only #226, tax for 10%, heads #286, chapter 11 #639, rates 5%, $100m X%
Top accounts mentioned or mentioned by @krobinson7077 @roberts26862145 @jjeffrey100 @blackjack_hawk @cityjournal @kchappellnews @jaredwalczak @taxfoundation @billdubs @cannachi @akidfromohio @ohiostorking @katiescarlet2 @cappigblueline2 @northsider1060 @douglas_tress @__bgg @fbirnazis @kellydunnahoo @tsaucybottom
Top assets mentioned Hundred Million (100M)
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Top posts by engagements in the last XX hours
"BREAKING: Delayed property tax collections have forced emergency lending into Chicagos pension funds in order to avoid asset sales. The Chicago firefighters pension fund did not have the cash on hand to pay current retirees. This is what insolvency looks like. And its exactly why Chicago CFO Jill Jaworski and Mayor Brandon Johnson should have been screaming from the rooftops to oppose the pension sweetener bill just passed in Springfield that dropped the police and fire pensions to XX% fundedthe worst in the nation"
X Link @Austin__Berg 2025-09-16T20:54Z 15.5K followers, 541.2K engagements
"WATCH: Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson confirms his head tax proposal does not apply to workers who spend XX% of workdays in the city. This clip raises three major problems with Johnsons head tax 🚩 Punishing back-to-office: This will uniquely penalize in-office work at a time when downtown is still experiencing record-high vacancy rates. 🚩 This wont raise $100M: Its clear from their answers here that the mayor and Budget Director Annette Guzman did not take into account remote work when creating the $100M revenue estimate. 🚩 Punishing blue-collar work: A restaurant with XXX employees"
X Link @Austin__Berg 2025-10-28T17:47Z 15.5K followers, 120.4K engagements
"Great to join @kchappellnews this morning for her story on the utter mess of Cook County property tax bills this year. We're calling for an investigation by the Cook County inspector general into why Tyler Technologies continued to rake in record-breaking contracts from county government despite shoddy work and missing deadlines"
X Link @Austin__Berg 2025-09-16T15:53Z 15.5K followers, 37.6K engagements
"The business community should help fund community safety. They already pay the highest commercial real estate taxes in the country and the second-highest corporate income tax in the country. The problem is Chicago has the worst GDP growth of any major metro and just hit a five-year low in hiring expectations. So we cant afford to chase away businesses that could grow jobs here"
X Link @Austin__Berg 2025-10-28T21:30Z 15.5K followers, XXX engagements
"NEW: The first domino toward insolvency for distressed local governments across Illinois just tipped. Last night the city of Harvey unanimously passed an ordinance seeking state oversight under Illinois Financially Distressed City Law. Heres what that means and why it matters 🧵"
X Link @Austin__Berg 2025-10-17T14:47Z 15.5K followers, 94.9K engagements
"WATCH: Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker seems like a hard no on the $1.5B tax increase package introduced by the Illinois House last night including the proposal to charge a new unprecedented tax on unrealized gains. As it is its not going forward"
X Link @Austin__Berg 2025-10-29T16:35Z 15.5K followers, 87.2K engagements
"NEW: Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson will call for several tax hikes in his budget address today according to a leaked copy of his press release. They include 🚩 Reviving Chicagos head tax (a tax per job that the city eliminated in 2014) as a community safety surcharge and imposing it on all companies employing over XXX people in Chicago. 🚩 Hiking the citys X% cloud tax on electronically delivered or cloud-hosted software. We are the only big city in the country with this type of tax which has been cited by tech businesses as a reason not to invest in Chicago. 🚩 Expanding the citys amusement"
X Link @Austin__Berg 2025-10-16T14:06Z 15.5K followers, 414K engagements
"WATCH: Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker comes out strongly today against Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnsons head tax proposal. I am absolutely foursquare opposed to a head tax for the city of Chicago. It penalizes the very thing that we want which is more employment in the city of Chicago. It makes it very hard to attract companies from outside the city to come in and harder for companies already here to stay. Pritzker also said Johnson needs to work harder to find efficiencies in the city budget rather than threatening the economic growth of the city and state with a new tax on jobs. Balancing the"
X Link @Austin__Berg 2025-10-21T19:51Z 15.5K followers, 200.1K engagements
"WATCH: South suburban Harvey Illinois just furloughed XX% of its city workforce. The Cook County sheriffs office is now dispatching officers to Harvey to cover patrols. Harvey is seeking financial oversight from the state. But under Illinois Financially Distressed City Law Harvey cant do anything about the pension debt thats suffocating the city and eating up basic public safety services. Harvey needs Chapter X bankruptcy protection to restructure the citys debts and begin their comeback. But Illinois state law does not currently allow for Chapter X. So Harvey remains stuck in a chronic"
X Link @Austin__Berg 2025-10-28T14:19Z 15.5K followers, 93.4K engagements
"NEW: Illinois lawmakers just introduced a new wealth tax on unrealized capital gains for people with over $X billion in assets. They are trying to pass it before the scheduled end of veto session on Thursday. 🚩We would be the only state in the nation to impose this kind of tax. 🚩It raises an estimated $296M in revenue. I wouldnt trust that estimate but in any event the much more severe cost would be to chase every billionaire and their taxable income out of the state. 🚩There are no protections preventing lawmakers from moving that bracket downward. It may start with billionaires but it"
X Link @Austin__Berg 2025-10-29T12:31Z 15.5K followers, 263.2K engagements
"UPDATE: The revenue package including a new tax on unrealized gains just passed out of the Illinois House Executive Committee on an 8-4 partisan roll call (8D-4R). It now heads to the House floor"
X Link @Austin__Berg 2025-10-29T20:09Z 15.5K followers, 31.5K engagements
"@JaredWalczak @TaxFoundation Update x5: Just passed out of committee in the House"
X Link @Austin__Berg 2025-10-29T20:09Z 15.5K followers, 10.8K engagements
"NEW: A majority of Chicago City Council members are now opposed to Mayor Brandon Johnsons head tax proposal. XX of XX alderman just signed a letter rejecting the head tax and asking the mayor to consider efficiencies found in the Ernst & Young report commissioned by the mayors office. Thank you to everyone who contacted their City Council member on this issue You made a huge difference Aldermen who signed Brian Hopkins (2nd) Pat Dowell (3rd) Desmon Yancy (5th) Greg Mitchell (7th) Anthony Beale (9th) Peter Chico (10th) Nicole Lee (11th) Marty Quinn (13th) Ray Lopez (15th) Stephanie Coleman"
X Link @Austin__Berg 2025-10-30T15:42Z 15.5K followers, 66.1K engagements