Sangamon County taxpayers would see a total of $47 million in state income tax increases if a tax hike measure passed by the Democrat-controlled Illinois State Senate becomes law.
Even if a “grand bargain” budget is passed this legislative session, it “will not help the people of Illinois,” Patrick Hughes vowed on a recent broadcast of radio show "Illinois Rising."
It'll be up to Gov. Bruce Rauner to decide the fate of House Bill 40 — legislation that allows state employee health benefits to cover the cost of abortions — and Patrick Hughes says if Rauner doesn’t veto, “he loses re-election.”
Lawmakers have spent very little time in their seats, but at least they got to have play time, Austin Berg wrote on the Illinois Policy Institute website recently.
Gov. Bruce Rauner took to social media recently to remind lawmakers what he has been saying for months: Expect a veto if any budget plan passes the General Assembly without taking property taxes into account.
Gov. Bruce Rauner fired back at Senate President John Cullerton and his recent column in State Journal-Register, urging him to take aim at Illinois' true nemesis.
Increasing Illinois' minimum wage to $15 an hour would be devastating to small businesses and cost the state 93,000 jobs, the National Federation of Independent Business (NFIB) Research Center forecast recently.