Posted on 05/13/2017 1:44:08 PM PDT by KeyLargo
Friday, May 12, 2017
IL GOP Senator Brady serves as coal-mine canary with his proposed "Grand Bargain 2.0"
SPRINGFIELD - Republican state Senator Bill Brady - once the favorite of social conservatives when he ran twice for Illinois governor in 2010 and again in 2014 - has now willingly stepped in as a tax-hike canary in the Illinois Republican coal mine by making a daring call for tax hikes in the governor's newest "grand bargain" budget proposal.
And it's not just one tax hike the Bloomington senator wants Illinoisans to inhale along with him, it's two or maybe three new ones with little in return.
Brady's "Grand Bargain 2.0" features another state income tax hike back at least to the 5 percent level - but this one will be as temporary as the last one. In addition, taxpayers will, for the first time in Illinois, pay taxes on services such as lawn mowing, haircutting and house painting. (And those kind folks performing those tasks will have a new side job of collecting those taxes in their spare time.) There's also a new idea of a casino expansion fee - along with an unprecedented expansion of casino licenses.
Frustrated and tapped-dry taxpayers are expected to be duly pacified with a two-year (or so) property tax freeze - that will come with a way to hike those frozen taxes with a referendum hike option.
And to reduce expenses, the cuts Senator Brady proposes just don't shrink the budget enough.
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I weep for my native state.
He is a social and fiscal “moderate,” but tries to appear conservative on both counts.
So do I.
Leni
(now Florida, thank God).
South Carolina for me
Such idiocy
It appears they have legalized recreational marijuana for the Illinois Legislators. They HAVE to be smoking SOMETHING.
F him. -— — F Malloy, CT.
If only the state constitution allowed for the taxation of stupid ideas, this one could help balance the budget - at least until the Democrats decided to spend more so they could continue to run deficits.
Totalitarian people in IL will do anything to get higher taxes on the books!
Revolt or Bolt
They are going to extract their pound of flesh one way or another. We in Illinois need to get serious or get moving before they start charging an escape tax.
Not only are they planning a tax increase, but the ILLINOIS STATE SENATORS are also betting on gambling to balance the budget.
I haven’t mentioned it, well, because, someone might be trollling these thread,but...
they haven’t come for me, yet...
Illinois doesn’t tax retirement income...
You dumb asses in Illinois wouldn’t care to eliminate some of those worthless gub mint programs, or maybe try to eliminate the graft and corruption there prior to raising taxes more?
Nahhh, drive them jobs and people out of the state.
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