Illinois Lawmakers Approve 66% Tax Increase
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Illinois state Reps. discuss issues on the House floor Tuesday. They approved a 66 percent sales tax increase.
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) — Democratic Illinois lawmakers beat a looming deadline and approved a 66 percent income-tax increase in a desperate bid to end the state’s crippling budget crisis.
Legislative leaders rushed early Wednesday to pass the politically risky plan before a new General Assembly was sworn in at noon, taking a slice out of the Democratic majority and removing lame-duck lawmakers willing to support the tax before leaving office.
The increase now goes to Democratic Gov. Pat Quinn, who supports the plan to temporarily raise the personal tax rate to 5 percent, a two-thirds increase from the current 3 percent rate. Corporate taxes also would climb as part of the effort to close a budget hole that could hit $15 billion this year.
“Governor Quinn today thanks the Illinois General Assembly for taking strong action to confront our fiscal crisis and provide the revenue and reforms needed to stabilize the budget, pay our bills and jumpstart Illinois’ economy,” a statement from his office said.
Quinn’s office said the higher taxes will generate about $6.8 billion a year – a major increase by any measure. In percentage terms, 66 percent might be the biggest increase any state has adopted while grappling with recent economic woes.
It will be coupled with strict 2 percent limits on spending growth. If officials spend above those limits, the tax increase will automatically be canceled. The plan’s supporters warned that rising pension and health care costs probably will eat up all the spending allowed by the caps, forcing cuts in other areas of government.
House and Senate Approves State Income Tax Increase : MyFoxCHICAGO.com
Other pieces of the budget plan failed.
Lawmakers rejected a $1-a-pack increase in cigarette taxes, which would have provided money for schools. They also blocked a plan to borrow $8.7 billion to pay off overdue bills, which means long-suffering businesses and social-service agencies won’t get their money anytime soon.
House Speaker Michael Madigan, sounding weary, said Republicans should have supported some parts of the plan instead of voting against everything.
“They’re on the sidelines. They don’t want to get on the field of play,” the Chicago Democrat said. “I’m happy that the day has ended.”
But Republicans noted they were not included in negotiations. They also fundamentally reject the idea of raising taxes after years of spending growth.
“We’re saying to the people of Illinois, `For eight years we’ve overspent, now we’re going to make it your problem,’” said Rep. Roger Eddy. “We’re making up for our mistakes on your back.”
The increase means an Illinois resident who now owes $1,000 in state income taxes will pay $1,666 at the new rate. After four years, the rate drops to 4 percent and that same taxpayer will then owe $1,333.
Republicans predict the tax eventually will be made permanent.
“It’s a cruel hoax to play on citizens to say this is temporary,” said House Minority Leader Tom Cross, R-Oswego.
Democrats bristled at being blamed for the state’s financial problems, although they‘ve controlled the governor’s office and both legislative chambers since 2003.
They said some of the problem began under Republican governors and that Republicans backed some budgets that increased spending. They argued the national recession sent state revenues into a nosedive and that Democrats already have cut spending by billions of dollars.
“This mess is a mess that is the responsibility of all of us as Republicans and Democrats, of several different governors and part of the mess isn‘t even anybody’s fault,” said House Majority Leader Barbara Flynn Currie, D-Chicago.
The new tax money will balance the state’s annual budget and let officials begin chipping away at the backlog of unpaid bills. Borrowing money, and then repaying it with a portion of the tax increase, would have allowed those bills to be paid immediately, aiding organizations that provide services for the state but go months without being reimbursed.
The delay and the spending limits are “very troubling” to those groups, said Sean Noble, policy director for Voices for Illinois Children, a member of the statewide Responsible Budget Coalition. Still, he called the tax increase “an enormous step” toward putting Illinois on sound financial footing.
The proposal passed the House on Tuesday night 60-57, the bare minimum. No Republicans backed the measure there or in the Senate, where the measure passed 30-29.
The governor has refused to discuss the tax proposal publicly, although his aides say he supports it. During his election campaign, Quinn promised to veto any tax plan higher than his proposal for a 1-point increase.
Republicans accused Democrats of doing irreparable harm to Illinois families and businesses. Business leaders decried the proposal as a job-killer.
“Based on this particular legislation the only businesses that will benefit are the moving companies that will be helping many of my members move out of this particular state,” said Gregory Baise, head of the Illinois Manufacturers’ Association.
Democrats countered that even with the increase, Illinois’ tax rate will be lower than in many neighboring states – Iowa’s top rate is 8.98 percent, Wisconsin’s is 7.75 percent. They also maintain that without more money, state government may not be able to pay employees by the end of the year. Major government services might have to be halted, they warn, and groups waiting for state payments will go under.
Spending limits were added to the plan to win the support of some suburban Democrats. Republicans said the limits don’t do enough to clamp down.
The limits allow next year’s spending to increase considerably so the state can make its required contribution to government retirement systems, pay overdue bills and cover other costs that had been shoved aside. After that, however, spending could not grow more than 2 percent annually for the next three years or else the tax increase would be reversed.
“We’re really trying to handcuff ourselves and the governor in our spending,” said Illinois Senate President John Cullerton, a Chicago Democrat.
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Associated Press writers Christopher Wills and Zachary Colman contributed to this report.
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The bill is SB2505.
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Online: http://www.ilga.gov
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1SSF
Posted on January 12, 2011 at 9:32amAs a lifelong resident of Illinois this criminal act is the final straw. My wife and I are considering moving to escape the madness of the Democratic Tyranny that is Illinois. There is VERY little difference between either parties here in Illinois. Both swim with corruption.
The magnitude of criminal activity in the state (at all levels) has never been truly or accurately reported. Political and financial corruption has buried the citizenry and the future of The Land of Lincoln in a cesspool of union, mob and democratic sleaze. “Then why not vote them out of office?” you may ask. The answer is simple: One can’t. The corruption is so extreme that it goes to the very heart of what makes any Marxist Country flounder financially. If every voter outside of Cook County voted the bums out the black and union community within Cook County can vote them back into office owing to the entitlement mentality. They have done so, they are doing so, and will do so — and for all time. I once heard O’Reilly state that Dick Durbin was “political history” after he made his infamous statements about our military resembling Nazis. Regardless of past Chicago politics and corruptions, O’Reilly, like everyone else in the media, haven’t a clue of just how corrupt and powerful the current Democratic Machine is. Durbin won the election because they found enough votes in Chicago to win. The Gov won this last election because they found enough votes in Chicago to win. End of story. They can do whatever they wish to do, with no oversight whatsoever. AS LONG AS THE ATTORNEY GENERAL IS A DEM, the Democratic Machine has a blank check to do what they wish. Almost ONE BILLION DOLLARS of Illinois Tax-Payer funds have disappeared in Chicago and the unions. No audit was, is, or ever will be forthcoming. Never. More than ONE-HUNDRED cases of fraud and union corruption have been submitted to AG Lisa Madigan and/or her office. Do you how many cases were pursued? NONE. Not a single case. For a nation or government to exist the foundation must be governed by LAW. Ultimately, there is no law in Illinois. This wonderful state is no different than Zimbabwe or any other Marxist nation. We’re toast. And it is only the beginning.
Report Post »912always
Posted on January 12, 2011 at 5:20pmSoros said the AG’s are more important to getting things done, their way.
Report Post »urfree2b4now
Posted on January 12, 2011 at 8:55pmI guess Rham will feel right at home.
Report Post »drago
Posted on January 12, 2011 at 9:32amMass exodus if soming to IL., then who will the lawmakers tax, themselves?All i can say is, stay the hell out of Texas, you are’nt welcome here……
Report Post »mcFirst
Posted on January 12, 2011 at 9:30amcut all school busing. find your darn way to school.
Report Post »JohnQTaxpayer
Posted on January 12, 2011 at 9:29amWelcome to the peoples oligarchy of New York, Illinois
Flee now before it is too late
Report Post »NEAF
Posted on January 12, 2011 at 9:29amAnother evidence how stupid and scare these politics are. They rather increase taxes because they know some will complain, but if you cut entitlements programs then a riot will arise. Cowards!!! Another Liberal Progressive nanny state going bankrupt. Let them move south. They are wondering why business are moving out. :(
Report Post »FBailey
Posted on January 12, 2011 at 7:07pmWell that is one way to get Chicago bulldozed like Detroit.
Report Post »Ron Budwine
Posted on January 12, 2011 at 9:26amCome to TEXAS!!!–,NO INCOME TAX here,and WE love newcomers! No “P.C.” here either!
Report Post »TexasCommonSense
Posted on January 12, 2011 at 9:34amOnly conservatives!
Report Post »SoonerBorn68
Posted on January 12, 2011 at 1:04pmSpend some money in Oklahoma on your way through. Just make sure you make your way down to Texas. :D
Report Post »PreserveOurFreedoms
Posted on January 12, 2011 at 9:26am“…pay our bills and jumpstart Illinois’ economy…”
Yep.
Report Post »Uh-huh.
Sure.
Be Ready
Posted on January 12, 2011 at 9:25amAlways hear how the Dems are for the working class. All I heard from parents growing up; have decided my parents are idiots (love ya though). Have always been a conservative. Workers of America (Illinois) Bend over. Add your comments
Report Post »mcFirst
Posted on January 12, 2011 at 9:24amThe horse are out of the barn, these guys just are left to pay the bills. The sad news is that people are more mobile today, I can hear them packing, to move to tennessee, Florida and Texas.
So keep taxing the producers and it;s throwing gas on the ongoing downward spiral.
Report Post »Be Ready
Posted on January 12, 2011 at 9:21amI love it, its not that they have a spending problem, we have a giving problem. They will increase the money coffers by 2\3 and only increase spending 2%, why not decrease spending. Will be moving out of this worthless state. I will find a way to pay less in taxes if it is the last thing I do.Add your comments
Report Post »fatjack
Posted on January 12, 2011 at 12:04pmBeware of Georgia we are being taken over by kudzu. It grows at a rate of 35 feet per hour. It creeps in at night and eats everything in it’s path. Stay in Ill its safer up there.
Report Post »kenworth_427
Posted on January 12, 2011 at 10:17pmAs for North Carolina, we have very cold winters and it can get quite windy here too…brutal it tell ya! Oh and the toll roads here are crazy, we have…two…for the entire state being proposed at this very moment. Maybe try Detroit? I hear you can buy 3 houses for the price of 1.
Report Post »psst
Posted on January 12, 2011 at 9:20amDrudge had a story on this happening yesterday.
Report Post »This morning Fox ran a story about 500+ retired state workers receiving (if I remembered correctly) around 700Mil $. yearly. Some taking in 100K,$ others 200K $+.
How about this **IT. many private sector“ FULL TIME” workers averaging 40-50K PY paying taxes to compensate retired state union workers to the tune of 100-200K per year.And this is happening all over the country.
ILL is in even deeper **IT than kal-y-4-nya. Watch citizens and private sector employers high-tail it out of there.
Didn’t an Anti-America ILL. “preecha” babble something about “Chickens coming home to roooooost”
I need to borrow his crystal ball so I can win the Power-ball jackpot.
BTW. This is the same kind of ILL politics that is in the WH.
It’s totally corrupt in ILL and in the WH.
HO-mama said he will fundamentally change the country to resemble ILL.
benrumsley
Posted on January 12, 2011 at 9:19amReducing spending and entitlements just didn’t enter their ratty little brains it seems. Even visiting Illinois, New York, California, or other Liberal Controlled states isn’t on my future wish list.
Report Post »betterthantv
Posted on January 12, 2011 at 9:15amI really don’t have a problem with this. The people of Ill. DESERVE anything they got coming to them.
Report Post »ariva dercci illinois
Posted on January 15, 2011 at 11:46pmWhy in the world would you say that Illinois people get what they “deserve”. What is it that we have done to you? I live in Illinois and I did not vote for quinn, did not vote for blago. I do not live in ‘the state of chicago’, but as far as popuation goes, if you arent in corrupt chicago, then your vote doesnt matter. Try to take into consideration that we are not all for the government and the government in Illinois is not for us. I seem to remember blago paying 30+ thousand dollars just to get his picture taken! Who is paying for that now? We are..and no…we dont DESERVE it. Get off your high horse!
Report Post »Hirllr21
Posted on January 12, 2011 at 9:15amWOOHOO!!! I live here, and the solution to jumpstart the economy is to steal the federal tax break I just received.
Report Post »jackboom
Posted on January 12, 2011 at 9:15amThis last election just gave Illinois. PAT QUINN, A LICENSE TO STEAL
Report Post »Lion420
Posted on January 12, 2011 at 9:15amI look at stories like this and wonder how people can continue voting for these jokers.
Report Post »mhgadfly
Posted on January 12, 2011 at 9:10amThough what they did is tyrannical and spits in the face of the Illinois citizenry, the really horrific thing is how they did it…more screw-the-peasantry tactics by the increasingly Marxist Dems. If I live in Illinois I do believe I’d be calling for a storming of Bastille (Note to the moronic mainstream media, this is figurative and not meant to be taken literally by some dumb ass sheriff or MSNBC blow hard propagandist).
Report Post »912828Buckeye
Posted on January 12, 2011 at 9:08amI don’t know if there is any hope for this state. The people that live there deserve what they get.
Report Post »Hirllr21
Posted on January 12, 2011 at 9:20amWe deserve it? I can’t control the election rigging in Chicago that got this guy elected. I also can’t control the current unemployment rate that has made it almost impossible to sell my house and move out of state. You sir, should check the latest election results showing that Illinois overwhelmingly supported Tea Party style congressional candidates, but mysteriously ended up with a governor that ran on raising taxes.
Report Post »Border Ruffian
Posted on January 12, 2011 at 9:34amCut your losses, Vote with your feet, I did
Report Post »Born In MA
Posted on January 12, 2011 at 10:53am@ Border ruffian,
Report Post »You say do like you did, vote with your feet. Believe me that is easier said than done. I know, I am another who would love to get out of my own state as soon as possible, but right now it isn’t possible.
Pucci
Posted on January 12, 2011 at 9:07amlet the exodus begin.
Report Post »TexasCommonSense
Posted on January 12, 2011 at 9:05amCut spending instead!
Report Post »Born2Run
Posted on January 12, 2011 at 9:18amCutting government or government spending is never an option.
Report Post »grandmaof5
Posted on January 12, 2011 at 8:57amBusiness’, COME ON DOWN TO FLORIDA! No state tax and we have Southern Hospitality and great weather to boot.
Report Post »Bev5
Posted on January 12, 2011 at 9:28amTypical. The residents vote these idiots in, and will now probably move out of the state as a result. Tip: If you move to a state in good financial shape, don’t vote, just sit back and enjoy. Thank you.
Report Post »KenInIL
Posted on January 12, 2011 at 1:27pmYou also have REALLY BIG BUGS !! — all year round. My bro lives there and regards pest control as just another utility bill.
Report Post »saneasylum
Posted on January 12, 2011 at 8:56amLiberals at their best! In the dark of night they pass this increase, my condoleces to my friends in Illinois ! Politics in Illinois will never change…always been like this through my lifetime! Time to Wake-up !
Report Post »magnum357
Posted on January 12, 2011 at 8:56amHey if 66% will jump start the economy just think how well 150% would do. Why stop there you idiots.
Report Post »Lesterp
Posted on January 12, 2011 at 9:13amMy wife’s aunt and uncle had strong thoughts of moving back to Chicago, this will definetly stop that!
Report Post »TheBMT
Posted on January 12, 2011 at 9:41amahhhh this is bad reporting. It is only going from 3% to 5%. Hardly anything to scream about. Maybe next time the people of that state will pay attention to its politicians and excess spending. Then they wouldn’t have to raise those taxes.
Report Post »stogieguy7
Posted on January 12, 2011 at 9:46amHey, thebmt, you must have learned math in a “gubmint” school! If you’re paying 3% of your income and it’s then increased to 5%, that is a 66 percent increase in what you pay.
If it’s not much, why don’t you kick in the extra $3000 that it’s going to cost my family this year. After all, it’s not much – is it? Idiot.
Report Post »MamaofJ5
Posted on January 12, 2011 at 9:53amKeep increasing taxes and they won’t have to worry about jump starting the economy, cuz no-one will be living there. Morons. Ya, take moe of my money, and I’ll run out and spend in all those businesses, are these politicians REALLY that stupid. My first grader knows more about economics. Of course she doesn’t go to a liberally educated school.
Report Post »NeoFan
Posted on January 12, 2011 at 7:27pmIf they raise the taxes 150% then Union members can retire at 20. Yeah lets do that!
Report Post »Buck Bagaw
Posted on January 13, 2011 at 9:46amBMT, Way to minimize the negative! After not a lot of calculating, I have actually figured out that going from three percent to a five percent rate constitutes a sixty-six(and two thirds) percentage of increase. A lot of businesses operate on from three to five percent net income after all expenses, why should they have to pay for the piss-poor fiscal management by the Ill-Annoy government.
Report Post »Wilma
Posted on January 12, 2011 at 8:56amIt will be interesting to compare results with New Jersey in a couple of years.
Report Post »Xcori8r
Posted on January 12, 2011 at 11:04amThe best comparison is right next door in Indiana. They came to Jesus a few years ago, are now in good fiscal shape and are welcoming Illinois businesses and jobs by the drove.
Report Post »JCoolman
Posted on January 12, 2011 at 8:53amI hope the south is ready for more residents.
Report Post »ron the veteran
Posted on January 12, 2011 at 9:01amthis just goes to show ya that the left would rather tax you into slavery than to lay off a few worthless union losers. and you lames will just let them, what fools you all are. you deserve the misery you get.
Report Post »TAXLORDCOMETH
Posted on January 12, 2011 at 9:03amA temporary tax, until years from now they cry about all the people that will be hurt if they repeal this tax increase.
Report Post »jowolo
Posted on January 12, 2011 at 9:03amI live in the south and dont look forward to more residents from the liberal state of Illicitnois.
Report Post »Lesterp
Posted on January 12, 2011 at 9:08amJC, We are!
Report Post »Shurmus
Posted on January 12, 2011 at 9:17amThe people of Illinois’ chickens have come home to roost.
Report Post »ozchambers
Posted on January 12, 2011 at 9:17amYeah, that sounds like a fresh new plan Illinois hasnt tried before. Raise taxes! (eyeroll).
Report Post »oldoldtimer
Posted on January 12, 2011 at 9:18amIll residents please go West. We do not want your liberalism here. You already bankrupted your state with liberalism. Fist thing they want is to make it just like where they came from. So why are they moving?
Report Post »oldoldtimer
Posted on January 12, 2011 at 9:20amBest reason I know to stop lame duck sessions at all levels of gov’t. It no longer takes 1 or 2 months for a Congressman to get to Washington City by horse back so it is outdated and needs to end.
Report Post »watchtheotherhand
Posted on January 12, 2011 at 9:26amYeah, that’s a brilliant plan. Raises taxes and drive out what remaining business and industry was hanging on. Illinois is simply a state governed by crooks. Whens the last time you have ever seen a temporary tax increase stay temporary in that state. Needless to say its the same mentality that still runs Illinois in Chicago that has brought the state to its financial knees. We dare not make any real cuts in the budget, let’s just soak the people more (even if they are already making personal sacrifices financially anyway). I wouldn’t live in that corrupt mob run state if you paid me.
Report Post »BoilitDown
Posted on January 12, 2011 at 9:26amThe neighboring States will reap the biggest benefit from Illinois’ suicidal legislation. Businesses will move to States that realize their citizens need to be gainfully employed and show their appreciation for the business community rather than squeezing them for political mad money. Illinois lawmakers have treated business like the enemy that needs to be punished for a very long time.
Report Post »Back when Blagojevich proposed imposing the VAT tax above the existing taxes, businesses started making their plans to escape. This new legislation will probably precipitate a fairly fast exodus to States that have most likely been trying to sell them on the move already.
The news will be full of stories of Illinois refugees. If their is any way I can convince the rest of my family to move to a business friendly State without this rampant corruption, we will be gone soon.
Kurty C Wipe
Posted on January 12, 2011 at 9:28amAll major cities and states controlled by Socailist are broke. Unions are the death of this country. Teachers unions lead the death march.Right here in little Californa (Oregon), is a good example. Teachers take a pay cut? hell no. Great gig, work 6 months a year, with bennies, pull in 50k, and kids come out only knowing how to text.
Report Post »Grady Curve
Posted on January 12, 2011 at 9:30amthe problem with more liberals form north moving south is thay they come down here and impose the same destructive practices that destroyed the state they are fleeing from… look at North Carolina now it is in shambles form liberal infiltration into politics and policies… it is a disease and it must be stopped.. so NO we southerners do not want more liberals thanks but no thanks we’re trying to quit…
Report Post »Notice they alway inject, it’s for the children… whose children are they talking about and why
CatB
Posted on January 12, 2011 at 9:42amThis is really good news FOR FLORIDA! Thank you Dems of IL!
Report Post »psst
Posted on January 12, 2011 at 9:52amNope. We don’t want them down here.
Report Post »This is reminiscent of Florida. Once upon a time,cons did not have to sweat Florida. It was no contest.
Then wealthy Jews from up North decided they did not like the cold. By the thousands they settled in Florida. And Brought their liberal politics w/ them.Add to them, all the turd wurlders settling there.
All big government socialist voters.
N. Carolina have also been diluted,( even if it’s not considered Southern)by liberals settling in from farther North.
Many N. Eastern libs wants to relocate in the South.. But they insists on bringing and voting their lib ideologies.
They run from States that their ideologies have screwed up and want to move into other states and screw them up too.
I prefer libs to stay and live in the beds they made.
GhostOfJefferson
Posted on January 12, 2011 at 9:59amGosh, because deeply cutting government spending is simply out of the question!
Report Post »River0
Posted on January 12, 2011 at 10:01amEvery American should take a trip through Pennsylvania, look at Philadelphia, and visit the ghost city of Braddock. Yes, Braddock is literally a ghost city; 95% of the population is gone. Braddock was once a thriving manufacturing and economic center. The anti-business and high tax environment of Pennsylvania has driven industry out, and the state is in danger of becoming derelict.
This is what Democrats do, and they seem to be immune from the truth.
Report Post »Katrina
Posted on January 12, 2011 at 10:12amTo all those who believe Illinois is a liberal state. Please don’t associate all of us with the Chicago individuals. It is a long standing fact that if you live outside of Chicago you don’t matter. There are more congressional districts in Chicago than the entire rest of the state. We are not all Liberals. I must say that I look forward to driving an extra 3 miles to work when my company moves across the river into Missouri. Gas, Cigs, nearly everything is less expensive in Missouri.
Report Post »mikem1969
Posted on January 12, 2011 at 10:40amNote to illinois residents, THIS IS WHAT YOU GET WHEN YOU VOTE FOR LIBERALS AND PROGRESSIVES. Do not bring your liberal progressive butts to the south, we don’t want our states screwed up by the liberal progressive agenda. Stand and deal with what you created.
Report Post »ltb
Posted on January 12, 2011 at 10:41amI hope these people stay away from Texas.
Report Post »untameable-kate
Posted on January 12, 2011 at 10:50amFortunately people from Illinois Can‘t live in temps over 110 so we don’t get many of them here in Az.
Report Post »KICKILLEGALSOUT
Posted on January 12, 2011 at 11:35amGreat just what we need. Illinois turns their State into a pile of garbage then the lawmakers decide to raise taxes to continue to support their Liberal government garbage programs by raising taxes which then people decide to migrate to the South to pollute our culture and communities!
Can we get some State immigration laws drawn up please!
Word to Northerners, have you ever noticed how a Southerner doesn’t quite fit in up North? Yes, well Northerners don’t fit at all down South so please just stick to letting us have to bear your presence for a few summer weeks on your vacation and then go back home where you belong and work hard to fix your state instead of coming and ruining ours!
Report Post »KICKILLEGALSOUT
Posted on January 12, 2011 at 11:40amThis is their plan anyways!
The already know their States are Socialist strongholds to they trash the place and make it unlivable meanwhile it forces them to move to cheaper places in the South which are more conservative but that is what they want because if they can get enough Liberal Scum to move in then soon the Liberal Democratic candidates are running and getting elected and it soon trashed the whole country!
Report Post »Tayper
Posted on January 12, 2011 at 12:04pmDon’t come to TEXAS!
Report Post »Dandylyon
Posted on January 12, 2011 at 12:20pmThis is the state where Obama get‘s all the people he surrounds himself with to make all his decision’s.good explanation as to why he is such a failure.
Report Post »hickoryrat
Posted on January 12, 2011 at 12:20pmWhy would anyone who works 40+ hrs per week to support their families either vote for a democrat or choose to live in a place like the people’s republic of illinoise?
Report Post »Hypoxicrage
Posted on January 12, 2011 at 12:26pmSouth?
You mean AZ, right?
I live in AZ and the number of people who have moved here from IL is unbelievable! I have met many who are nice people, and I have become completely disgusted by the ones who have weasled themselves and their political sickness into our local governments. There are many others from the liberal states that have nested here right next to the crazy liberals from IL.
If you look at the usery that now exists here, it is absolutely beyond comprehension what they are doing. In the city I reside in, they start running juice (mobster term for taxing) on your water and sewer bill after 15 days of payment notice. On a side note here, those water rates just went up by 10% a few months ago. The federal clean air act is used to garner them a sludge fund which is wrong. What they do is collect $3 plus tax each and every month from every residence that pays a sewer/water bill. This money is apparently placed into some mythical sludge fund for when the EPA fines our city for violating the clean air act. Heck, I cannot even get a green light to speak at a local city counsel meeting about this. Welcome to Chicago style politics, and I guess it will probably get worst.
Report Post »SoonerBorn68
Posted on January 12, 2011 at 12:58pmMore damn Yankees. Lovely. :D
Report Post »exdem
Posted on January 12, 2011 at 1:32pmObama was Illinoi’s senator and his work there is complete. Please America look the other way and be quiet while he finishes off the rest of the nation. Trickle -up poverty for us all!!
Report Post »independentvoteril
Posted on January 12, 2011 at 2:00pmHave to say my husband doesn’t even work in IL.. therefore the question would be do we rent out our home (it’s in my name only) or do I just let it become another foreclosure.. while we buy a house in HIS name in the state he works in since housing is cheaper there anyway..OR we could just say we are residents of IN.. have to see which one works out best for us..
Report Post »frgough
Posted on January 12, 2011 at 4:19pmNo thanks. Liberals foul their nest then move to clean bedding so they can lose bowel control all over again.
Report Post »drphil69
Posted on January 12, 2011 at 4:35pm“Governor Quinn today thanks the Illinois General Assembly for taking strong action to confront our fiscal crisis and provide the revenue and reforms needed to stabilize the budget, pay our bills and jumpstart Illinois’ economy,”
Who knew? Just raise taxes and it will jumpstart the economy!!
Report Post »DMcPher316
Posted on January 12, 2011 at 5:14pmyou have to understand…illinois is just a life support system for chicago. these assh@%# are more concerded with making mayor daly and his pirates happy, where do you think most of the state revenue goes? these turkeys have been driving out businesses for years and are too stupid to figure it out. Why didn’t the cut government pensions? There are 500 or so in the program and they will be paid over $68 million dollars just this year and it will increase next year “due to cost of living” (?)
Report Post »Every one of these “people” need to be fired. We need to make term limits the law. we need to make their pensions depend on what WE have…401K, investments…and NO life long platinum parachutes!!!
proantisocialist
Posted on January 12, 2011 at 6:45pmprogressive’s does an economy good! 66% increase come to ohio were getting rid of our progresives..
Report Post »sharrod brown your NEXT!
NeoFan
Posted on January 12, 2011 at 7:24pmThis is great news! As we know from President God nothing makes a better economy than massively higher taxes. Move to Illinois quick to take advantage of their future booming economy before the state fills up.
Report Post »avenger
Posted on January 12, 2011 at 8:25pmbrilliant move that will create an exodus of jobs….
Report Post »misterpuffin
Posted on January 12, 2011 at 9:02pmJ Cool:
You are correct, many of us will be moving.
I live in Chicago and have lived here most of my life. And I have had it.
In addition to this most recent the tax increase, we are hit with many obsticles to normal living.
The fact that this increase was passed by a lame duck legislature is the last straw. We will escape to Wisconsin or a Western state. Fortunately, my job as well as my wife’s job are easily portable and we can rent out our 2 flat and sell it at our convenience.
It will be great not to spend $ 20,000 a year for my daughter’s private school tuition and not be continually hit by the “red light stop” traps.
……….When I started this e-mail, I was going to list all of the examples of waste that I see on a daily basis, but in retrospect this is a waste of time, since we are moving on.
Report Post »BoiseBaked
Posted on January 13, 2011 at 12:56amIllinois, that trainwreak of a state, is prelude of where Obama is taking the rest of the US. And that ain’t just Glenn Beck saying that!
Report Post »naw9850547
Posted on January 13, 2011 at 2:28amI have started an online petition to recall Gov Quinn. Please put this site on air so the IL voters can decide if recall is justified.
Neil A. Wurzer
http://www.change.org/petitions/view/petition_to_recall_gov_quinn_for_failure_to_protect_the_fiscal_soundness_of_the_state_of_illinois
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