State of Illinois balance sheet is a disaster. Increasing minimum wage won’t help the situation. Tax increases if temporary may be acceptable but any long term tax increase will always hurt the main street economy in the long term.
This is how I currently measure candidates:
The best: Fiscon + Socon + not neocon
The worst: Not Fiscon + Not Socon + Neocon
Acceptable: Not Neocon + Fiscon + moderately Socon.
There is nothing so permanent as a temporary tax increase.
I recall here in TN, some six decades ago the legislature signed off on a “temporary” sales tax (I think around 1%). Today, that “temp” tax is almost 10%.