Illinois thrives on government waste funded by excessive taxes, rather than solutions
Illinois just passed $1.85 billion in new taxes for Chicago by hiding under the fog of the fight with ICE, immigration and Trump, and forcing outrageous tax hikes on downstate & suburban taxpayers
By Ray Hanania
Illinois politicians did it again. Instead of fixing broken public service problems like the inefficient CTA, they quickly passed massive tax hikes on the working middle class, the way they have repeatedly in the past, to patch up the bloated system
How did they do it? It was easy. The Republicans lack any real strong statewide leaders — th…
