Today the new state budget for the upcoming fiscal year was passed on party lines in the Illinois House of Representatives. The $55.2 billion budget is reliant on one-time revenues and includes a billion dollars in tax hikes. In voting against the budget, House Minority Leader Tony McCombie issued the following statement:
“Speaker Welch said the quiet part out loud: tax and spend Democrats are thriving in Illinois…at the expense of Illinois families.
“Rather than pursuing meaningful structural reforms to secure our state’s future, Democrats chose to prioritize politician pay raises, steal from the rainy-day fund, and funnel money into their own pork projects.”