State tax increase punted, but we’re still going to get one
Add comment May 31st, 2009
So I turned on the computer at 11:30 p.m. to see what the Legislature had passed as relates to a budget, and I read this “half a loaf” story.
Well, those guys are loafers, that’s for sure. I assume that state agencies are supposed to spend their “half budget” and then turn out the lights and go home.
More likely, Gov. Quinn will call a special session this summer. Now that June is here, legislation requires a supermajority, meaning Republican votes will be needed to pass a tax increase. I’m thinking that legislators punted on the tax increase because they feared encountering “people with pitchforks” on the county fair circuit this summer.
Taxes will be raised. Just not yet.
