Remember back in May when the state legislature met for only four days and cranked out a spending plan that was 7-and-a-half percent larger than the previous year?
Remember how
they built the whole budget on the premise that the federal government would
give them billions of dollars in assistance because of the pandemic?
If you
don’t…let me remind you. If you think the current administration in Washington is
going to subsidize the fiscal mismanagement of the state of Illinois by sending
a check, think again.
Tuesday our
governor engaged in a scare tactic to lay the groundwork for his “fair tax”
which would generate new revenue for a state that just can’t get enough. J.B. Pritzker said if Congress didn’t send
money, the state would be in the middle of a “nightmare scenario.”
He said all
manner of public jobs would be cut, even police. I found that interesting since
his party seems to embrace the idea of less cops around.
No,
Republicans in the U.S. Senate and in the White House will not bail Illinois
out. The pandemic isn’t to blame…rather it’s decades of lousy leadership in
Illinois.
The governor
sees two things happening in November to save the state…a new president and a new
graduated Illinois tax plan.
You have to
admire his optimism.
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