Raise taxes or cut education
From the Tribune:
Not even close
“We cannot afford to duck our responsibilities.”
That’s how Gov. Pat Quinn opened his budget address Wednesday. Then he ducked.
He posited that we can “sacrifice the future of a generation of children” or we can raise the state income tax rate by 33 percent. But he set out a budget that would hack at school funding or whack taxpayers and would still leave the state with a grossly unbalanced spending plan.
