Quinn to visit Editorial Board
April 21st, 2009 at 04:13pm Wally Haas
Gov. Pat Quinn will be in Rockford at 4:30 p.m. Thursday to talk to the Rockford Register Star Editorial Board.
We plan to Web stream the meeting live on rrstar.com.
The state budget probably will be the hot topic. Quinn has proposed a tax increase, which many members of the Editorial Board oppose. The Editorial Board would like to see the state spend less money and reform the pension system that threatens to bankrupt the state unless it is dealt with.
Here’s a link to the gov’s budget proposal. Tell me what you think.
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1. jonw | April 21st, 2009 at 4:49 pm
I think the budget cuts can go deeper. The state has enabled a bureaucracy that has created programs and personnel that exist for reasons that are not essential, The state would continue to function and citizen’s lives would go on day to day without notice of these expendable programs. I’m a liberal who says spending has gone overboard and cuts must occur.
2. Mr. Aaron M. Funfsinn | April 21st, 2009 at 11:39 pm
Single Illinoisans earning $15,200 would see a tax increase. That shocks the conscience. When Rod was impeached, it was because of the reckless spending and program creation outside of the legislative scope. Why aren’t those programs dropped and reevaluated? Also, why would wind farms become Free Enterprise Zones? I guess he hasn’t really handled that yet, but it will be a hot potato a few months from now. That is like creating a TIF District in the middle of a cornfield, literally. State Senate Bill 1923 would create that nice loophole, which would leave local governments with nothing. I’ll have to think through it further, but this is a good start and maybe all I would want asked.
3. Mr. Aaron M. Funfsinn | April 23rd, 2009 at 1:17 pm
A few other questions of local relevance: first, what is the status of renovating and reopening Cole Hall? Is the state committing any resources at this point or is that a matter that will simply have to wait?
Second, will wind farms ever provide property tax revenue at all when the existing property tax formula ceases in 2011? The DeKalb County Zoning Officer would not recommend approval of a wind farm precisely because there is no certainty that the wind farm would ever contribute to the local tax base at all.
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