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Gov. Quinn: Short-term solution is tax hikes; long-term solution is tax hikes
Posted by Joshua Culling - October 01, 2009So far, IL Gov. Pat Quinn's quixotic quest to fix the state budget has produced very little. He's
sticking to his tax-and-spend guns, though:
Gov. Pat Quinn says a proposed cigarette tax could be a short-term solution to restore funding to the state's largest financial aid program for college students.
Quinn told students at a rally Tuesday at the University of Illinois at Chicago that an income tax increase could be a long-term solution.
Funding to the Monetary Award Program, or MAP, was slashed in budget cuts
So the Governor's short-term solution is to hike taxes on Illinois small business community and the poor.
His long-term solution? Compound the misery by
raising taxes by 50 percent on anyone making over $14,000.
What a fresh, innovative approach to governing.
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Tom said on Oct 01 2009 at 12:37pm
What happens when the Federal Government takes over his state's student loans?
same ol, same ol said on Oct 01 2009 at 10:50pm
Someday half of those students are going to realize the truth. Leftism is a stupid way to go through life.
In Michigan I read they passed a 30-day emergency budget. The article also had a list of things being considered followed by "no funding source cited". A wish list.
But they did vote to move the state police from a $1 a year building into one costing something like $400,000 a month or something. I might have read that wrong. It was apparently an affirmative action thing.
same ol, same ol
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