Posted on 07/04/2017 4:32:31 PM PDT by Extremely Extreme Extremist
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. -- The Illinois Senate voted to override Gov. Bruce Rauner's vetoes of a $36 billion budget package Tuesday, including a $5 billion tax increase designed to start digging out of the nation's longest budget crisis since at least the Great Depression.
The Democratic-controlled chamber completed its work within 30 minutes of the Republican governor's vetoes, sending the package back to the House for an override vote that would give Illinois its first annual budget since 2015.
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The rats own it now. Rauner doesn’t.
Good. Let the Dems own it.
The tax increase will return exactly 0. They are too high on the Laffer Curve.
Indeed an ill noise.
Capital will flee.
“The rats own it now. Rauner doesn’t”
Yep, not that it will sink in with the Brain dead Chicago Peeps whom want something for nothing.
Who becomes Governor if Rauner resigns?
Wow, downstate will get really screwed.
The next thing they have to try to do is close the borders and not let anyone out. Then they have to send the Mafia’s Spec Forces into other states to abduct taxpaying businessmen to reinstall them in Chicago.
Death spiral, especially with sensible states like Wisconsin and Indiana right next door.
0 is way too optimistic.
Same thing the Dems did to Schwarzenegger in CA. Arnold compromised with the Dems and they still blame him today for CA's sorry financial state. This is why it is absolutely stupid for Republicans to try and work with Dems. You set your agenda in no uncertain terms, and if you lose, you lose. But then the people get the government they deserve and will wake up to this fact. Rauner on Day One should have came out of the gate with a list of spending cuts and educating the IL masses that structural changes are needed to keep the state solvent.
Arnold is the reason only Dems run in that state. He and his buddy, forget the name passed that global warming cap and trade tax.
Arnold reduced the sentence of his pals son. That boy murdered a fine young man.
Arnold married a Kennedy....he never should have been trusted. I voted for him, lived in the state then.
Arnold is a major pile.
So the working folks in Illinois move and take their lefty views with them putting the red states purple.
NO...Conservatives move to a more agreeable state.
The next thing they have to try to do is close the borders and not let anyone out. Then they have to send the Mafia’s Spec Forces into other states to abduct taxpaying businessmen to reinstall them in Chicago.
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?? Seriously ??
“Death spiral, especially with sensible states like Wisconsin and Indiana right next door.”
I like that, go to Wisconsin and Indiana. We don’t want’em here in Texas.
More rats will move to red states....there flooding into SW Florida
Maybe the governor can move out...like the democrat governor of Connecticut...taxes were to high so he moved to Florida
I think there is still a snowballs chance in hell that the house will close ranks and uphold the veto. The democrats abandoned talks Friday evening and dropped 1200 pages in two bills on the republicans that thought they were still negotiating in good faith. The bonds will still go to junk more taxpayers will flee and the delusional democrats will continue to stuff their pilfered plunder into the bloated pockets of their fat man pants.
Even if the gods of Mt Olympus that rule Illinois could comprehend the white hot ire that awaits them back home just outside their guilded communities they would only delight all the more.
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