Following state lawmakers’ failure to pass a mass transit funding bill, Mayor Brandon Johnson urged the Illinois General Assembly Tuesday to steer clear of taxes that hammer working people, and instead turn to the “ultra rich” to pony up $770 million to avert layoffs and service cuts at CTA, Metra and Pace.

A bailout bankrolled by a $1.50 tax on food and package deliveries passed the Illinois Senate shortly before the Legislature’s midnight Saturday deadline, but it was never called for a vote in the Illinois House.

The $1.50 delivery tax was billed by supporters as an “environmental impact fee” but slammed by opponents in the business community as a regressive “pizza tax.” Johnson agreed.

“I think the conversation around revenue and how we pay for it is something that has to be a broad

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