How bad is Chicago going to become under its new mayor, Brandon Johnson? A look at what Johnson’s allies want to see from his budget provides an answer to that question, and it isn’t good.

The liberal group Action Center on Race and the Economy issued its own budget plan that “shares many of the goals Johnson campaigned on,” according to local news outlets. This is not a surprise, given that one of the two authors of the plan is a member of Johnson’s transition team. In case you need any hints as to how bad the plan is, it is titled “First We Get the Money.”

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The plan calls for tax hikes across the board, including nearly tripling the tax on jet fuel sold at Chicago’s airports and hiking taxes on companies and financial transactions, which Johnson already supports. The plan that Johnson was willing to campaign on would raise taxes by $800 million. The plan from ACRE would look to raise $8 billion.

Johnson already wants to cut — sorry, “redirect” — $150 million from the Chicago Police Department as the city continues to experience violent year after violent year. In 138 days this year, Chicago has seen 205 homicides. (Nearly two-thirds of those victims have been black. Don’t worry, Black Lives Matter will be on the case any second now.)

On that same note, ACRE proposes getting $150 million by eliminating 1,000 vacant positions in CPD, even though the department is understaffed. The plan also calls for a 9% budget cut for the CPD for each of the next four years, cutting $538 million by the time Johnson is up for reelection.

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Johnson decided to distance himself from the plan, even though he already supports several of the proposals and, again, one of the co-writers is a member of his transition team. He wants people to believe that the plan “has nothing to do with what we’re trying to do.” And yet, Johnson already showed his duplicity in trying to pretend that he didn’t support defunding the police when he had been explicitly celebrating it before he launched his campaign.

Johnson only wants to avoid association with the budget plan put forward by his liberal allies, but he supports higher taxes in several areas, including areas put forward by the plan, and he supports defunding the police. The only limit on how much of that plan he can pursue is the limit he puts on himself to avoid backlash from voters. Even he doesn’t want to risk giving Chicago voters the left-wing path that they chose for themselves, or at least the honesty of it. But this is what Chicago voted for. Johnson may as well give them the true, authentic progressive experience.