Illinois Governor Quinn, Speaker Madigan Backroom Deal Caught on Video

By: Loren Heal (Diary)  |  January 11th at 01:17 PM  | 

When Chicago voters returned Pat Quinn to his job as Governor of Chicago, they knew he wanted to increase their income taxes from 3% to 4%. That’s not much for most of his supporters, who accept a government check of one sort or another. But shortly after winning reelection, he let it be known that a 33% increase was not enough, if his public sector | Read More »

Quinn A-Tax Illinois

By: Loren Heal (Diary)  |  January 9th at 12:02 AM  | 

Democrats kept their grip on power in the Illinois Legislature and won the governorship by the slimmest of margins, and they are going to make voters pay for it. Emboldened by his reelection, Governor Quinn and legislative allies are seizing on the lame duck session to sneak through a radical tax and spending plan the voters did not expect and would not have accepted.