"At the end of the day, I took property taxes off the table, cutting basic neighborhood services off the table, not allowing Springfield to be the determiner because the rating agencies won't give you that time, and even if they did, I'm not sure the governor ever would agree to it," Emanuel said during a groundbreaking for a Wrigleyville development. "So we worked through it, and this (sewer and water tax) is the fairest way to get it done."