Nothing could possibly make more sense during a recession, right?
Gov. Quinn called today for a one percentage point increase in the state income tax to fund education.
Quinn is asking legislators to raise the income tax to 4 percent from the current 3 percent.
“That 1 percent will be enough to restore our education budget to current levels,” Quinn said in his budget address in Springfield.
A 33% tax hike. For "education."
Won't somebody think of the children?!?
We're pretty sure that school funding has increased every year for the past 20 or more years while actual graduation rates are stagnant or lower than they were during that same time. How about reforming school spending instead?
At any other point in history, this proposal kills Quinn's re-election chances. But Illinois politics is so screwed up and the republicans in such disarray that Quinn is still a viable candidate for election.
Won't somebody think of the children?!?
We're pretty sure that school funding has increased every year for the past 20 or more years while actual graduation rates are stagnant or lower than they were during that same time. How about reforming school spending instead?
At any other point in history, this proposal kills Quinn's re-election chances. But Illinois politics is so screwed up and the republicans in such disarray that Quinn is still a viable candidate for election.
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