Republican governor candidate Bill Brady made it official Monday while at a tour of Rockford Toolcraft in Rockford. There will be no tax increases on his watch if he’s elected governor.
I had to ask him a couple of times to get the unequivocal statement, though.
Brady said people can’t afford new taxes. He said he would raise revenue by creating jobs.
So, I asked him if he would never agree to a tax increase as governor.
“I will not sign a bill with a tax increase,” answered the state senator from Bloomington.
I reminded him bills don’t need to be signed by the governor to become law.
“I will veto any tax increase” he said.
That’s better.
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Means nothing. If he’s elected, there’s no way he will be able to cut expenses solely to balance the budget. He’ll have to raise taxes at some point. How’s he’ going to “create jobs?”
1.. How will he “create” jobs?
2. Specifically, what will he cut? Making a no tax pledge is pointless if he does not specify what he will cut. Mr. Brady needs a platform instead of running around making empty promises, and not disclosing how he plans to solve the revenue/expenditure imbalance in Illinois state government.
my question is how is he going to deal with madigan? this is all moot until he states how he is going to deal with gridlock
Monkey, Gov. Chris Christie balanced new Jersey’s budget without raising taxes. That is now a historical fact. Even a Democrat, Cohen, argued that taxes must be incentivized to draw businesses to Illinois, not push them to Texas. But Brady has an excellent chance of winning.
As for the Assembly, Republicans could well retake the House. They would only need to switch eleven House seats to do it. Given the political failure of the Democrat Party, it is now within the realm of possibility that they take enough traditional downstate Democrat and suburban Democrat House seats to switch control back to the Republicans.
How would Quinn deal with a Republican House, were he to be reelected? They will make sure that no tax increase ever passes through the House. We’ve already seen Quinn’s willingness not to raise taxes (he has none). Chris Christie did it in New Jersey because the legislative Democrats had no alternative.