Illinois State Senate chambers (CBS File Photo)
UPDATED 01/12/11 10:43 a.m.
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (CBS) – By a single vote, Illinois lawmakers approved a 66 percent increase to the personal income tax overnight, and soon, your paycheck will be shrinking.
But as CBS 2 Chief Correspondent Jay Levine reports, Democratic state lawmakers have said the tax hike is necessary to get the state’s outstanding bills paid. Lawmakers also say cuts and spending limits will be part of the plan.
Around 1 a.m. Wednesday, the Illinois Senate approved the tax hike by a vote of 30 to 29. The Illinois House approved the tax hike on Tuesday evening, by a vote of 60 to 57.
Gov. Pat Quinn still must sign the bill into law, but he has supported a tax hike all along, although this plan is double what he originally said he’d support.
But Quinn agreed to the deal in closed-door meetings with top Democratic lawmakers this week and he was on the Senate floor when the vote was taken.
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The hike increases the state’s personal income tax rate from 3 percent to 5 percent.
In real numbers, if your gross income is $50,000 a year, your state income taxes will rise from $1,500 to $2,500 a year.
As CBS 2′s Susanna Song reports, the tax hike wasn’t sitting well with Chicago residents Wednesday morning. She spoke with dozens of commuters Wednesday and none of them supported the tax increase.
“I don’t like that. I’m already losing enough money,” one woman said.
“My taxes are high, so I just really … I’m really struggling as is,” another woman said.
The hike will also boost the corporate income tax rate by nearly 50 percent, from 4.8 percent to 7 percent. In addition to the corporate income tax, many businesses in Illinois pay a “Personal Property Replacement Tax” of 2.5 percent of income, bumping their corporate tax rate to 9.5 percent.
Democrats said the tax hike will help plug a $15 billion budget hole.
“We’re going to pay bills on time, and that’s a huge change,” said state Senate President John Cullerton (D-Ill.)
Cullerton emphasized that the tax hike is only one portion of a solution to the state’s budget crisis.
“The taxes are going to not borrow anymore; to make our pension payments without borrowing our pension payments; to make up for the loss in federal revenues. They’re not going for any new programs or any new spending,” Cullerton said. “There’s going to have to be further cuts, even with this tax.”
The tax hike will be coupled with strict 2 percent limits on spending growth. If officials spend above those limits, the tax increase will automatically be canceled. The plan’s supporters warned that rising pension and health care costs probably will eat up all the spending allowed by the caps, forcing cuts in other areas of government.
But Republican critics say the hike will harm middle class families.
“This means hundreds of dollars for Illinois families that they’ll be paying more to the State of Illinois, and the irony is the money they have been sending to the state has been so grossly mismanaged for the last decade,” said state Senate Republican Leader Christine Radogno (R-Lemont.)
The tax hike is not set up to be permanent. After four years, it drops to 4 percent.
“This is always tough to raise taxes,” Cullerton said. “We’ve done it before under Republican governors, and when there’s been big recessions, and that’s what we responded to.”
The higher taxes will generate about $6.8 billion a year.
The tax hike followed fiery rhetoric on both sides of the Senate aisle.
“We don’t have a better choice today!” state Sen. David Miller (D-Dolton) said in a raised voice. “Everybody wants to go to heaven, but nobody wants to die!”
Miller, an unsuccessful candidate for state comptroller last year, later collapsed while watching the Senate debate, although he seemed awake and alert when paramedics responded and took him for further treatment.
Critics have expressed doubt about whether the tax hike will really solve the state’s budget problem. Earlier this week, the Better Government Association called the move to pass a tax hike plan “closed-door backroom dealing,” and bemoaned the lack of public hearings or answers to questions.
Radogno also said she believes lawmakers have failed to address the factors that are contributing to the ballooning deficit.
“That’s the big lack in this whole bill. No one’s addressed the spending yet,” Radogno said. “I don’t just mean spending at the state level, but there’s so much work that this body could do to make Illinois more efficient.”
Republicans also fundamentally reject the idea of raising taxes after years of spending growth.
“We’re saying to the people of Illinois, ‘For eight years we’ve overspent, now we’re going to make it your problem,”‘ said Rep. Roger Eddy (R-Hutsonville.) “We’re making up for our mistakes on your back.”
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Other pieces of the budget plan failed.
Lawmakers rejected a $1-a-pack increase in cigarette taxes, which would have provided money for schools. They also blocked a plan to borrow $8.7 billion to pay off overdue bills, which means long-suffering businesses and social-service agencies won’t get their money anytime soon.
Quinn has been ducking reporters for the past week, but he is expected to have more to say on the tax hike on Wednesday.
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463 Comments
‘m done. Illinois just increased the income tax at a point when many cannot even feed their families properly. Between gas, state taxes, every other increase is only going to hurt the economy. What are the irresponsible going to get with their hands out? How are the unemployed, the families that are trying to survive on $40k a year going to keep their houses?? Politicians do not think of that. Politicians only think of what benefits government and government Pensions. For a family making 40k in Illinois, they will now have to pay an additional $800 a year in state taxes. Hey Quinn….Hey all you that think giving hand outs to those that are irresponsible, Hey Democrats…..What will you do when the families that are struggling…just give up. Will you give us handouts?? Or should I encourage my son and daughter to have a child without marriage or money? With unearned income credit and dependent credit, Link, section 8, free college, hmmmmm…….Not a bad idea. Looks like I am the stupid one for teaching my children self respect and earning what you spend. Who would have thought the USA would come to a Nation of elitist helping a Nation of Lazy…. survive at the expense of those struggling to survive by actually working?? Some have several part time jobs to do so.
I know one thing…….I am moving out of ILLINOIS. A state where Politicians spend, while the struggling lose everything. WHY would you people vote Democrat? aka Quin???? This country is a joke, It’s time to move…. NOW.
January 12, 2011 at 5:55 am
I AGREE WITH YOU 100% I’m not sure though that other state’s aren’t watching closely for reactions and they will eventually do the same thing. Here’s a call, to the tea party, HELP !!!! Four years, start planning now.
January 12, 2011 at 7:41 am
Welcome to the Lone Star State (Thats Texas for Y’all yankees). We have no state income tax and get real nasty with ANY politician who even mentions the idea.
January 12, 2011 at 10:27 am
Frankly….anyone who voted for Quinn is a fool, he said he was going to raise taxes…..but unfortunately the election was stolen,plain and simple.
We are now well on the road to becoming JUST LIKE THE STATE OF MICHIGAN.
I watched the Michigan economy almost come back in the 90′s….then Granholm was elected and RE-ELECTED by the the good people of Michigan…the Democrats successfully RUINED any recovery in the state…with higher taxes and more regulation….subsequently the. economy went into the toilet. This happened long before the rest of the country went bustI The people of Michigan had to learn the hard way …as will we here in Illinois. Michigan just turned into a red state…..let’s see whose unempoyment rate is higher a year from now.
January 12, 2011 at 11:29 am
I’m w/ Steven I moved from Michigan 4 years ago to Texas. Apparently my family helped increase the Texas population by 20+% over 10 years and reduce Michigan’s by -1%. No Income Tax, and similar cost of living, plus we actually have jobs done here for the most part. There’s plenty of space we’ll take you all in.
January 12, 2011 at 12:54 pm
@Steven,
You’re right–we don’t have a State income tax but Perry put our deficit at about $27 Billion. How to you think he will reduce that debt? Increase our property taxes, maybe 8+ percent sales tax? It ain’t that pretty in Tx either.
January 12, 2011 at 1:41 pm
I see a few props for the Lone Star State. Yes, I will agree that all are welcome, but please if you’re liberal, don’t bring it here. Otherwise Texas could in up like Michigan or Illinois or California or New York or…
January 12, 2011 at 2:15 pm
AGREED 110%. Very well put!! I have been asking how people could’ve voted these theives into office. I’m disgusted and at a loss for words. Thanks for writing this as I sit and shake my head!!!
January 12, 2011 at 8:08 am
It’s a problem with the district layout. Look up the recent Illinois governers race. Pat Quinn won only 2 counties in the entire state and still remained in office. The Illinois districts up north in the State of Chicago need to be torn apart and cut down into smaller districts and the Unions needed to be disbanded. How can racketeering be illegal in other form other than Union tactics?????
January 12, 2011 at 11:10 am
Government is a broker in pillage, and every election is a sort of advance auction in stolen goods. ~ H. L. Mencken
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January 12, 2011 at 1:08 pm
I agree LOTD, funny thing is, obama said what he was giong to do to the US but no one listened. Here is a fun fact; Illinois and California have the top two largest deficits in the country. They also have the most illegal aliens.
January 13, 2011 at 11:24 am
Good for you. I moved from Maryland to Florida for the same very reason. I will not even visit certain states based on their policies like California and Illinois. We are all at fault for letting it happen. Stop supporting them be moving out and boycotting them.
January 12, 2011 at 9:14 am
I agree……Me and my family, 2 brothers and 2 sisters left Chicago when we felt that the property taxes were too high. That removed 5 tax payers from the rolls, and we always talk to our friends that remain as the possibility of thier MOVING out…….Now with this slap in face income tax hike, 6 of our remaining friends are now preparing to move, and one of them is a small business owner who has had enough of the constant BURDEN of HIGH TAXES.
This will only BACKFIRE on the politicians, amking more tax payers LEAVE the state, and more small business close as they determine it IS NOT WORTH THE EFFORT to continue in Illinois.
They need to CUT SPENDING FIRST, identify were the cuts are for the people to review to see if they are really cutting the PORK AND FRAUD in the budget, and not required services.
My example to start with would be to have ALL state county and city pensions frozen and converte to 401k like the rest of us. Another is to make sure if anyone is pulling a taxpayer funded check that they are IN FACT WORKING, not off on a sabatical or othr non performance holding area.
January 12, 2011 at 9:23 am
I moved out of Illinois in October. It was just getting too damned expensive to live in the Chicago burbs anymore. And considering the fact that there seem to be fewer and fewer jobs there, I made my way to Raleigh NC.
January 12, 2011 at 10:18 am
MTR,
when you moved here to Raleigh, did you vote for the conservatives or did you vote for the same kind of lib spend thrifts you had up there in Chi Town? I grew up here and most northerners vote for the same kinds of stuff HERE they caused up there!!
And what’s the definition of crazy? Doing the same things over and over, but expecting a different outcome!
I’ve lived here in NC and I’ve lived there in Chicago too. TX is looking better all the time. (thanks to silly liberal voters!)
January 12, 2011 at 10:25 pm
Oh man, please don’t accuse me of voting for libs. There are conservatives in Illinois, and I was one of them.
January 12, 2011 at 10:32 pm
Illinois residents need to feed the government union pensions with their hard earned paychecks. So shut up and keep working.
January 12, 2011 at 11:06 am
I live in Kalifornia and Jerry Brown is cutting everything, BUT, he’s going to come back and jack up the taxes everywhere and keep in place the” Temporary Taxes Arnold put into effect. People and Business will just leave and go to other States. Any Democratr comtrolled State is a BAsket Case.
January 12, 2011 at 11:18 am
You are absolutely correct! States controlled by Democrats have spent themselves into insolvency in order to fund their constituencies, welfare, unions, lawyers, illegals and criminals that must be accommodated.
January 12, 2011 at 11:43 am
At least he proposed $12B in cuts. Illinois politicians have proposed no cuts so far.
January 12, 2011 at 3:29 pm
“Cutting everything”?!?! That’s silly talk John. There are NO cuts to K-12 (i.e. the teachers unions), not one state worker is going to lose their job, and he is offering ZERO pension reform.
January 12, 2011 at 3:49 pm
He is “cutting” 12B. But our deficit is 20B. Where is that 8B? Under the couch? Did the dog eat it? I wonder where it is!
January 12, 2011 at 3:54 pm
Deena….we will see a mass exodus out of the state of people AND business….remember the corporate tax was doubled!! Any business with common sense and a profit motive(which is what ALL business’ except non-profits have) will pack up and leave…..Until the left realizes that people do not go into business to support the government,…but rather to create profits and jobs….we will never get out from under. Whatever was left of the housing market is dead too….without a recovery in housing….there will be no recovery….. WELCOME TO ILLINOIS…..the most corrupt state in the nation.
January 12, 2011 at 11:37 am
All states run by Democrats are insolvent/bankrupt due to their out of control spending on welfare, unfunded public employee pensions, and all the other social programs that only consume tax dollars and produce nothing in return.
January 12, 2011 at 11:39 am
But I thought it was only the republicans that raised taxes. That is what all the democrats run their campaigns on.
January 12, 2011 at 11:40 am
The reason taxes in Illinois were raised to such an astronomical amount is because of George W Bush and Sarah Palin. it has to be , everything the liberals do is their fault
January 12, 2011 at 12:33 pm
you think too much… and for that, I’m gonna raise your taxes.Here in Illinois we prefer that our subjects not question the public elite. Now kindly stop thinking, go to work, … and of course…PAY YOUR TAXES!!
January 12, 2011 at 11:50 am
Well said!
I feel the same way!
Except I would also add — if you want to WORK in ILLINOIS you must LIVE in Illinois –especial when you are a STATE worker.
EARN your money in Illinois and SPEND it in Illinois.
The same should be said for COUNTY workers — if you work for Cook County you must LIVE in Cook County
These out-of-staters (and brown baggers) come to Chicago for the higher rate of wage, yet they spend their money in their home state.
January 12, 2011 at 12:01 pm
Gee I wonder why that is????
January 12, 2011 at 8:52 pm
Deena,
On behalf of ARIZONA, I INVITE you to come on over! We have plenty of jobs, our bills are paid [now that we have a conservative in charge], the weather is great, housing is cheap, cost of living is MUCH cheaper than Ill.
So, please… allow me to roll the red carpet out to you and any other MAKERS looking for a new home. And you’re not alone, we’ve been absorbing Makers from CA for the past 3 years… hence why it is getting better and better here… more jobs, more money… more stability!
January 12, 2011 at 12:02 pm
I say raise the rates ten fold. You get what you deserve. The voters keep putting these tax and spend democrats into office. Time to reap what you sow.
January 12, 2011 at 12:53 pm
Deena,
If you have raised your children to be good, contributors to society, and you are someone who believes in pulling your own weight, you are welcome in Minnesota! While we may have Franken, and Ventura, we are good people, and we work very hard to carry our own water!
Also, our recent conversion to a Republican leg, will be great for families and businesses.
Property taxes are nearly 1/3rd of what they are in Wisconsin!
January 12, 2011 at 5:52 pm
I am the CEO of a small high-tech business based in Naperville, and this afternoon I instructed my COO to begin the process of relocating our headquarters to another state, probably Wisconsin or Indiana to make it simpler for our employees to make the move. Most of our staff, though, like many high tech companies, is distributed and remote, so we can pretty much choose anywhere to make our base. Why In the world would we stay in Illinois?
January 12, 2011 at 8:53 pm
The Phoenix metro area is ready for your company. We have millions of available sq ft of commercial space, built in the last decade during the boom years. You can get your facility for a song, Bring the employees worth keeping, their lives will be better for it. For the rest of your needs, we have hundreds of thousands of educated and talented potential employees.
I left Chicago 10 years ago, and never looked back. Out here we are amazed that any of you actually stay there. The quality of life, the cost of living, the weather, the year round golf, the wide and fast roads, the beauty of the deserts and mountains…
January 12, 2011 at 9:29 pm
Cross Illinois permanantly off my list of states to consider retiring in. I note that one lawmaker says, “Now we don’t have to borrow to pay pensions”
Two points.
1.) Why not CUT pensions and switch state employees over to 401Ks like all the people who pay their salaries are on.
2.) THis might boost revenue in the short term, but when workers and busineses start relocating to other states, Illinois is going to be worse off in the long-term. Watch the exodus that occurs in the years ahead and the accompanying free fall in the state’s revenue.
January 12, 2011 at 9:05 pm
I so agree with you. My husband works in Indiana & we have gone back and forth about moving away from family to live in Indiana. This has made our decision easier. I couldn’t believe it when Quinn won the election. I’m wondering now how many of those same people who voted for the ass are mad about this. This wasn’t a surprise. Quinn said way before the elections he was going to raise the taxes.
January 12, 2011 at 9:17 pm
I have started an online petition to recall Gov Quinn. Please put this site on air so the IL voters can decide if recall is justified.
Neil A. Wurzer
http://www.change.org/petitions/view/petition_to_recall_gov_quinn_for_failure_to_protect_the_fiscal_soundness_of_the_state_of_illinois
January 12, 2011 at 10:36 pm
Don’t come to Texas we don’t want ya, we have too many of your type here from California and New York. Texas doesn’t just need a wall between it and Mexico but a wall around the whole state to protect us from all the out of state people flocking here. Especially Austin that place is turning into damn San Francisco East with all the liberals, trendies and artists moving there.
January 13, 2011 at 7:31 am
I agree with you tatally. What kind of GOVERNMENT DO WE HAVE HERE in ILLINOIS? I think all these polititians who voted this tax increase better consider trading there seat in congress or senate in on a new Park Ranger uniform so they will be able to charge people coming into Illionis to see the new National Park after they have run all the businesses out of Illinois and the fed up population has fled the state also do to OVER TAXATION and the fact that when businesses move out of state so do the people in order to follow there jobs. So when all they have to govern is themselves the National Park Idea is about all they have left since they’re trying to run a CIRCUS right now but nobody is buying the tickets. They better take a long look at the other states that are offering Illinois residents with wecome arms who have a much lower cost of living, jobs and you can bring home most of your paycheck without some Clowns in government seats taking thier hard earned money before they get it home.
I wonder if they made themselves exempt to this law as they do all the other
bull_ _ _ _ laws they pass that doesn’t apply to them. One thing the polititians who voted to pass this tax hike can be sure of they can probably kiss there seat goodbye next election, that goes for the ringmaster of this circus if he signes this tax increase. Remember we the people of Illinois have a good memory and if any of these polititians that voted for this tax hike ever run for another office of trust and responsibility I’d say they would be wasting their time as thrie polical carreer could possibly be OVER!
WONDER IF THAT MIGHT EFFECT THEM when their world comes falling down around them the way their laws have tumbled all the Hard Working People of. Illinois?
Wonder if they will honor my nationalparks senior pass to enter the new national park or will they change that too?
January 13, 2011 at 9:19 am
I am running in 2016.
January 17, 2011 at 9:14 pm
Move to Wisconsin!!!!!!!Walker is gonna fix this state that the Democrats FED up!!!!!!
January 19, 2011 at 4:51 pm
I agree with you 100%! That is why I moved out of Illinois in 2008.
January 12, 2011 at 6:08 am
I’m not even near retirement and I’m looking to get the hell out of here. With Chicago sales tax over 10% and now this??? I love how the naive journalists don’t even get it. At the beginning of the article they write about the tax hike from 3% to 5%. Then at the end, “The tax hike is not set up to be permanent. After four years, it drops to 4 percent.”. How is that not a permanent tax hike???
January 12, 2011 at 8:37 am
There is no such thing as a temporary tax….remember the toll roads???? Those tolls were supposed to be temporary……HAHAHAH!!!!
January 12, 2011 at 11:39 am
And do you REALLY think that theya re going to repeal it and keep it at that rate after they got a taste od a 5% rate???
January 12, 2011 at 12:03 pm
All of this to cover bloated pensions and ridiculous union contracts with cops, teachers, etc. blah blah blah blah.
January 12, 2011 at 6:11 am
exactly – flipping vampires
January 12, 2011 at 10:51 am
So they believe that raising the buisness tax by 50% will add more jobs? What a joke . Not only will more people suffer from this increase, buisnesses will move out of the state and so will the jobs. I hope Quinn and the rest of the democrates are happy, but his staff is still spending their raise, yet the people of this state vote him back in. I’m from NJ and thought that state was bad for spending and government. But this state is far worse……
January 12, 2011 at 6:19 am
So they believe that raising the business tax by 50% will add more jobs?
Well…those Dummies in Illinois believed the BS that Obama was spreading(and still is), so they get what they deserve!
“Hope & Change” Baby !!! lol
January 12, 2011 at 8:30 am
State and City Government has continue to raise taxes on the poor for decades and have always found way to get the american people in more debt. It would be much easier if the Law start cutting there on salaries and stop wasting the tax payers money on things that they don’t need. Chicago is one of the highest city in the country with no regrards to burden that is place on the people.
January 12, 2011 at 6:27 am
Let us not forget we are also paying throug the nose to send our governers to jail! Millions of dollars gone because of the crooks that make the laws! WHAT A DEADBEAT STATE! WE need to clean house . Its time to make a law of no confidence to get rid of the garbage in charge of this state!
January 12, 2011 at 6:30 am
They should vote themselves a pay cut based on job oerformance.
January 12, 2011 at 6:32 am
the root cause of this financial crisis, and the depression-state into which our IL government has spent us, is corruption. Pervasive theft and corruption through the usual channels – sham contracts, no-bid sweetheart contracts for the politically connected, nepotism, favoritism, highest-bidder politics… it’s at the nucleus of government in IL. It’s a disgusitng insult to the poeple of this state. It’s not all about pensions people. the state has been short-funding pensions in favor of mismanaging money for many years. Now they have to make up all the lost ground.
Until the corruption is cleaned up in IL, things will never change. A tax increase will mean nothing, change nothing. They’ll only mismanage the new revenue and steal more. More taxes in IL has never, ever fixed any problems. And FYI, don’t hold your breatht that this will be reverted or rescinded in 4 years, like they claim. That’s a ruse to diffuse public rage. It’ll never go down, only up. When the expiration comes, they’ll pass a new law to keep or increase the taxes.
BOOOOOOOOO ILLINOIS! Everyone who votes, keep this in mind. Never vote for a politician who voted for this increase.
January 12, 2011 at 7:24 am
“The higher taxes will generate about $6.8 billion a year.” for the 1st year, then the 2nd year it will be more like $4 billion as people and businesses begin the mass exit out of the state, and then $3 billion, so on an so forth. An oz. of common sense does not exist with the DemocRATS. How will the state run when there are only state and federal jobs in the state? It makes no sense to punish the private businesses out of the state. Quinn just proved that he is a liar and gave the taxpayers a big fat middle finger. We voted for change, and the DemocRATS pushed all the problems down our throats. I wish we had an AMERICAN party, you know one that actually looks out for the regular people instead of lining their pockets with gold. Pension reform anyone?
January 12, 2011 at 7:49 am
@Jim
You said “Quinn just proved that he is a liar and gave the taxpayers a big fat middle finger.”
And the people of Illinois have noone to blame for this but themselves. If I recall, the former governor had warned about Quinn’s obsession with raising taxes after he’d been impeached out of office, well before this last election in 11/10.
So for Quinn (and Madigan too…don’t forget it’s a team effort…and to which I’m glad to say not 1 Republican signed onto this tax increase) to sign this tax increase, breaking his promise of only a 1 percent increase, should come as no surprise. The good but naive people in Illinois have hopefully now learned something about trusting government.
January 12, 2011 at 8:27 am
Don’t blame me for this. I didn’t vote for any of the sleeze that passed this.
January 12, 2011 at 8:49 am
The problem is that the state has 47% Unions and Politicians that will always vote these idiots into office. They probably get COLA and will not be affected by this. It’s a move to strengthen the Democratic party in this state and allow business as usual (corruption) to thrive. Either that or they really are that stupid, but I can’t come to grips that we live with people that stupid.
January 12, 2011 at 8:50 am
Quinn promised Unions that if elected he will not tax their nice pensions and benefits,The Union members voted for Quinn.Illinois does not tax pensions.Let the little smucks burden the costs.
January 12, 2011 at 9:45 am
You are surrounded by states anxiously awaiting your arrival. Pack up your business, your kids and your bank accounts and get out of Illinois as fast as you can. Do not take your liberal politics with you – it will only destroy the new place you call home. Are you beginning to undersand that liberalism is an unsustainable cancer on your host economy? Good.
January 12, 2011 at 9:51 am
It’s a short drive to Iowa. Liberals, please stay home.
January 12, 2011 at 10:31 am
Leave Illinois if you live there.
Austerity. It’s time.
January 12, 2011 at 7:52 am
Yeah, but leave your liberal voting habits there.
January 12, 2011 at 10:45 am
Hey, maybe I should go to MY employer and DEMAND a raise because I overspent. Anybody think that would work? Who works for whom?
January 12, 2011 at 7:54 am
I earned in the seven figures in 2010 doing niche consulting work. My clients are worldwide, and they don’t care where my office is. I grew up in Chicago. But I just finished building a family home in Florida, and I will be re-establishing by business there. By living in Florida (no state income tax at all, comparable if not lower property taxes), what I will save in income taxes in this year alone will more than pay for my move and office space rent, and long-term, my expenses will be lower. Congratulations, state of Illinois – your legislative idiocy just cost you 400K in tax revenues these next four years…
January 12, 2011 at 7:59 am
if you phsycially do work in other states then you are require to file returns for those states so miving to FL may not solve your problem.
January 12, 2011 at 8:48 am
I think he is safe, he is not physically doing work outside of FL. He is a consultant. doing business in FL so that is where he would file.
I am a sole proprietor in TX and have customers all over the US. My income is not taxed by TX and I do not need a 1099 from my customers.
January 12, 2011 at 10:09 am
Welcome to Florida. Just do NOT vote the way you did in Illinois! There is a reason there are less taxes down here- there are less tax and spend liberals running the government. However, they keep trying to get in and raise our taxes. VOTE WITH YOUR CHECKBOOK, NOT YOUR CONCIENCE.
January 12, 2011 at 10:13 am
It’s official… Private sector workers (that is, the productive class) are now tax slaves to public sector union pensioners. What a crock. I hate my home, this state is an embarrassment.
January 12, 2011 at 8:00 am
This scam is being pertetrated at the Federal level by Obama and the liberals. All of those unionized government employees Obama has hired are sucking at the Federal Taxpayers teat.
UNIONS = death of businesses and economies. Since UNION = DEMOCRAT, one can extrapolate that DEMOCRAT = death of businesses and economies.
January 12, 2011 at 9:55 am
Policitians wonder why people are going crazy and blowing them away? keep taking about people’s ability to live and there is your outcome. I can’t believe that legally they can get away with this, totally appalled.
January 12, 2011 at 8:04 am
Led by Dumocrats, get your taxes hiked to pay for graft and corruption. Red states don’t have that problem. Oh, those evil republicans can actually balance a budget.
January 12, 2011 at 8:10 am
Like Bush?
January 12, 2011 at 4:51 pm
Isn’t the next election in four years ? That tax rolls back just in time for the next election. People will forget (they’re betting on it) and in four years the same people that voted this in will be re-elected. I can’t leave yet, but even if I do, someone else will just move in. Here’s what I never understood. If I perform badly and spend more than my budget, I would immediately get terminated. If I made promises to my boss and than did not fulfill that promise, I would get fired or demoted. If I stole money from my company, I would get fired. If I moved money from one bucket to another just to pay things, good-bye to me. Am I missing something?
January 12, 2011 at 8:12 am
How’s that “hope and CHange” going? Sometimes you actually get what you voted for.
January 12, 2011 at 8:14 am
they took the dollars and we keep the “change”!
January 12, 2011 at 10:04 am
hope and change is going very well thank you. I hope for a change in 2012.
January 12, 2011 at 12:35 pm
Obama cut Social Security tax by 2 points. He is from Illinois and always takes care of his Illinois cronies and in turn Illinois raise its income taxes 2 points. What a coincidence. The fix was in when they passed the bill in Congrees last month. It was a bailout for the states.
January 12, 2011 at 8:14 am
To those of you still in the Democrat party who voted for these thieves….they will not stop until you are working FOR THEM. They are stealing from you.
Why is it that politicians will DO ANYTHING BUT reduce their spending and cut the size of government.
January 12, 2011 at 8:15 am
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Obscene tax increases, yet another violation of our rights. Add it to the list of gov’t violations of our right:
They violate the 1st Amendment by placing protesters in cages, banning books like “America Deceived II” and censoring the internet.
They violate the 2nd Amendment by confiscating guns.
They violate the 4th and 5th Amendment by molesting airline passengers.
They violate the entire Constitution by starting undeclared wars for foreign countries.
Impeach Obama and sweep out the Congress, except Ron Paul.
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January 12, 2011 at 8:17 am
Please move to the Gulf coast if you are a business owner: Florida to Texas wants your business! Responsible governors slashing, lower taxes, better business environment, good workers, low housing costs (and in many Fl counties, property taxes have been declining). We moved all our business south and have been relieved to be able to put money back into the business rather than into government coffers. 50% business tax increase? See how many more intelligent people flee the state. Watch tax revenues decline rapidly as they did in the other couple of states that foolishly did the same thing. Politicians seem to be a special kind of dumb. Keeping spending growth to 2%???? How about slashing by 10% and start getting things under control. All BS of the first order.
January 12, 2011 at 8:21 am
This just feels like a money shift. The Feds are cutting our social security tax 2% and IL. is raising our tax 2%. Looks like the rest of the country gets a raise and IL gets nothing. Oh well, one hand gives and the other takes away. Can’t wait to see how they’re going to cover the social security shortage.
January 12, 2011 at 8:21 am
“But as CBS 2 Chief Correspondent Jay Levine reports, state lawmakers say the tax hike is necessary ”
In other words, CBS 2 is “educating” us hicks.
January 12, 2011 at 8:22 am
Hahahahahahahaha. You get the government you deserve.
“But I just finished building a family home in Florida, and I will be re-establishing by business there. By living in Florida (no state income tax at all, comparable if not lower property taxes), what I will save in income taxes in this year alone will more than pay for my move and office space rent, and long-term, my expenses will be lower. ”
That’s great. Welcome to Florida. Just one thing: Leave your stupid Illinois politics in Illinois. We get so tired of hearing you Snowbirds talk about how things were done “back home”. Remember, you left home for a reason.
January 12, 2011 at 8:22 am
Arnold in California passed a similar tax increase several years ago.The result my friends is business in the state did not grow and many moved out of the state.California is now technically bankrupt.Madigan pulls the puppet strings on that liar Quinn.
January 12, 2011 at 8:25 am
and politicains are killed???????????????
January 12, 2011 at 8:26 am
For every $1 in new revenue there should be a $1 cut in current expenditures. The crisis will end and we will be in the black in 2 years
January 12, 2011 at 8:26 am
The only CHANGE that took place with Obama and the rest of them is the fact that change is all I have left at the end of the month. Now they want that and more.
January 12, 2011 at 8:29 am
The voters of IL only have themselves to blame! They have voted for the Democrats year after year even though the corruption has been well known. Now you can pay even more for their crooked cronyism!
January 12, 2011 at 8:29 am
Qunn? who the helll voted for that Ahole???????????
January 12, 2011 at 8:31 am
OK yoiu won’t raise taxes on cigs which some use and are spiking all of our health care costs but persons paychecks when it is a recession? Shame on you!
January 12, 2011 at 8:31 am
And stupid too!
January 12, 2011 at 8:36 am
II didn’t vote for him. Hope he chokes on his steak. We the people will be eating spam after this year.
January 12, 2011 at 8:33 am
Wow, you elect tax and spend Democrats then complain when they actually raise taxes. You got the government you deserve, IIllinois!
January 12, 2011 at 8:33 am
Well, actually Chris, Chicago elected these Democrats into office. If you look at every other district, they all voted Republican. The city of welfare thrives while the rest of the state dies.
January 12, 2011 at 9:56 am
Well actually Downstate, the entire state voted for Quinn. While almost every district outside of Chicago voted republican overall, they still voted for Quinn in the governor’s race.
The following link from Fox News (of all places) will show this.
http://www.foxnews.com/interactive/politics/election-map-2010/?gclid=CJPcusSKtaYCFcIKKgodlEuRGw#race=postElePolMakeup&pres=false&state=il&tab=governor
January 12, 2011 at 10:29 am
@Nighthawk – if you click on the counties, you will see that almost all counties voted for Bill Brady; some as much as 54 points (including Iroquois and others) except for Cook county which voted 64% to 29% for Pat Quinn. Thank you for providing the map to prove my point.
A race decided by 1% or 20,000 votes hardly calls for comments such as “you get what you vote for” especially with the map you so generously provided.
January 12, 2011 at 1:33 pm
@nighthawk…………………..as downstate has already pointed out YOU ARE WRONG!!!! I have to love an idiot such as yourself that supplies the people with CLEAR EVIDENCE of your idiocy!!! Thnx!
January 12, 2011 at 3:02 pm
The real panic about this tax hike is that the morons who are voting for this monster increase actually believe that the citizens will buy off on the alleged expiration of the tax hike.
January 12, 2011 at 8:34 am
And Illinois keeps on voting for those criminal Liberal Democrats. You, along with Michigan and California, have become showplaces and model for the effects of Socialism and Union domination. I hope the rest of the Country learns the lesson well. Fortunately, they can look to New Jersey and Chris Christie for a better example of how government should run.
January 12, 2011 at 8:34 am
We can only hope that Christie runs for president in 2012!!!!! I wish he was the governor of IL. as I’m sure he would quickly put a stop to this crooked state that is run by “extortionized” labor & liberal democrats!!!
January 12, 2011 at 8:49 am
I like how Gov. Pat Quinn can give over 40 raises to his staff but yet cut from the citizens that really do need it. Also they tell us to invest in our 401k and in our future but how can when all they do is take that money away from us?
January 12, 2011 at 8:35 am
hey fools who voted for Quinn, suprise!
January 12, 2011 at 8:36 am
Welcome to the Soviet American Union. :)
January 12, 2011 at 8:37 am
Gov. Pat Quinn please do not sign this bill. Before any tax increase occurs major spending cuts need to take place first! Just like any responsible entity that has this big of an issue with it’s finances it should be attacked from all sides. The way this is setup in the bill it will fail in some many ways both in the short term and long term (to many to list here).
January 12, 2011 at 8:47 am
LOL…fat chance. THis drooling moron needs to sign this extortion to buy votes from his cook county mouthbreeding welfare rat political bloc.
January 12, 2011 at 8:50 am
Blagojevich has been proven to have been correct: Quinn was installed to raise taxes. I reckon Blagojevich wasn’t going to play along.
January 12, 2011 at 8:48 am
cuts and spending limits will be part of the plan…
So let me get this straight, they raised YOUR Taxes 66% but did not include any spending limits or cuts in welfare programs?
Man it must suck to live in a blue state!
January 12, 2011 at 8:50 am
It is the same morons in Illinois that propelled the career of Obama.
Simply stated: Illinois is a garbage state!
January 12, 2011 at 8:51 am
Chicago is going to be the next Detroit…
January 12, 2011 at 8:51 am
what happened in Motown will happen in “Yo-Town”
January 12, 2011 at 10:08 am
You got that right!
January 16, 2011 at 2:07 pm
Good bye Illinois, we might as well sell you off to Canada for what we can get
January 12, 2011 at 8:52 am
My fiance and I just bought out our apartment lease and are moving to Texas where they have jobs, no state income tax and actually have a budget surplus. The rent is cheaper for a nicer apartment than the one we have, too. I’ll miss the snow, but hey, I’ll manage. Plus, in Texas, you’re allowed to own a handgun, something I could never do in Chicago without jumping through nearly impossible hoops.
January 16, 2011 at 2:02 pm
NJ just had the State of the State address yesterday and mentioned Illinois as the state we DON’T want to become. Talked abou the 75% debate and everything. We had an $11BILLION hole he closed in one year with no new taxes and a now statutory cap of 2% on property taxes. So if “yus guys” want a bit of tax heaven, come to Jersey- we got everything else you’re used to: corrupt politicians, failing schools, sausage and a #1 tv show :) It’ll be just like home!
January 12, 2011 at 8:55 am
State Government has only one moral purpose: to protect the citizen’s rights to life, liberty, and property. They have become the destroyers of property, of liberty, and- since we all will live shorter, harder lives- life itself.
Given this vote at 1am, passing by one vote, can any of you doubt that this government is trying to destroy you?
January 12, 2011 at 8:55 am
Its a good thing guns are illegal in chicago or someone might start a revolution.
January 12, 2011 at 8:55 am
Whos is sxitting who here? Most dem voters are on welfare and don’t pay ANY taxes anyway. The state of Illinois has just moved into the Motown mode, where more “citizens” are receiving from the government than paying for it. Innionios is a cesspool. We left Chicago years ago, heading to Florida or Texas, for good, in the spring.
January 12, 2011 at 8:56 am
I’m glad to see your not the type of person who would make grandiose over-generalizations.
January 12, 2011 at 3:06 pm
Well, they do have a strict limit on spending growth of 2%. And you know that governments always stick by their rules when it comes to limiting spending.
DUH!
January 12, 2011 at 8:58 am
hey illinois, how does it feel to be nothing more than livestock to the government? Comrade Obama would be proud.
January 12, 2011 at 8:59 am
This would be laughable if it wasn’t so serious. If anyone thinks the state government is going to raise taxes to ‘close the budget gap and pay outstanding bills’ then they are delusional. Raising taxes will start the mass exodus of businesses leaving along with citizens of the state and revenue will drop dramatically and there answer will be to raise taxes again to cover the ‘budget shortfall’. They will not cut spending. They will increase spending just like they’ve always done. Government is addicted to your tax dollars and they’ll never come to grips with the fact that it is not their money and they will continue to squander that money to make sure they’re re-elected by handing out more of your money to the people that keep them in power….unions.
January 12, 2011 at 8:59 am
Thank you for having the guts to stand up to the taxpayers. We need this tax increase to prevent program cuts. Maybe now Illinois can balance the budget and stand proud amongst the other states.
January 12, 2011 at 9:01 am
Why should an elected official “stand up to the taxpayers”? Doesn’t he work for us? Aren’t many of these “programs” completely useless and bloated?
This is disgusting; and Pat Quinn should be ashamed of his immorality and personal affordability.
January 12, 2011 at 9:08 am
No, Quinn works for the voters. Voters are not necessarily taxpayers. Pensioners pay no state income tax on their pensions.
January 12, 2011 at 2:52 pm
Franklin, how many “programs” can Illinois afford? All of these programs staffed by union hacks with bloated pensions. You can’t focus your economy on the underachievers and expect to thrive. You must invest in those who can improve things, not drag it down further. The Democrat cycle of dependency is responsible for this mess – the more you reward underachievement and laziness, the more you get. If you had to produce to survive, I’m pretty sure you would find a way to produce.
Only the very weakest among us deserve a hand out. The rest must get off the public dole and learn to be responsible for their own lot in life.
January 12, 2011 at 9:41 am
Ugh. I hate Illinois. I’m moving. This won’t even do much for the deficit. The problem lies in the operation of the government.
January 12, 2011 at 9:04 am
THANK GOD, now these people will leave the state and come to those meanole evil republican states like florida and texas WHO DON’T STEAL ALL THE PEOPLE’S MONEY TO PAY FOR FAT CAT PENSIONS. Unions you are gone, you just don’t get it yet and you will get in our faces and beat us up at the election booth and cry and cry BUT WE ARE BROKE AND WE ARE UNEMPLOYED AND WE WILL TAKE ALL YOUR JOBS WITHOUT ANY RETIREMENT AND BENEFITS, WE NEVER HAD THEM…………….so we will TAKE YOUR JOBS AND SOON, VERY VERY SOON and you won’t be getting those pensions so strap in………….WE HAVE NO MORE MONEY FOR YOUR LAVISH LIFESTYLES………….
AND RICH guys, your munis are failing this year…….
January 12, 2011 at 9:05 am
Lovely use of caps locks! The fact that your yelling really comes though. However, you might want to use some angry faces to really add emphasis.
( :/ or >:{ or =P)
January 12, 2011 at 3:12 pm
If we cut “social services”, cars will be burned and windows smashes.
We are hostages here in Illinois
January 12, 2011 at 9:07 am
You mean the left is violent? The media has been telling me the Tea Party is the one to be afraid of.
January 12, 2011 at 9:32 am
The Tea Party should be feared. They tell the truth and speak of God, morals, honesty, the ten commandments, and being a good human being. The liberals can’t have any part of that nonsense
January 12, 2011 at 12:40 pm
What you really need to do is cut social services ( likeADC) AND stop all benifits to ILLEGALS…Make everyone prove citizenship or legal residence before paying anything.
As to those who use violence to protest, well, I say return it to them 10 fold….
The best way to stop a riot is to say 2 words….OPEN FIRE…..and you stop those who advocate violence.
January 12, 2011 at 10:46 am
For what its worth Mike Shedlock is initiating a campaign to recall Gov. Quinn.
He did a blog post on it here:
http://globaleconomicanalysis.blogspot.com/2011/01/campaign-to-recall-illinois-governor.html
He lives in Prairie Grove and is looking for volunteers to help him with administrative stuff (gathering petition signatures, etc).
January 12, 2011 at 9:08 am
They raise the business tax and the net result will be less tax. Domogogs have never figured out that business are the ones who provide jobs. Your problems will only get worse as people leave.
January 12, 2011 at 9:09 am
Thieving, lying Democrats. They are OWNED by the unions and will destroy the state before they will stand up to the monster they created. No matter what they say, tax increases are always permanent and spending cuts are always temporary. Democrats are always one tax increase away from socialist utopia, and they will always be. That’s why socialism is unsustainable. You must break the unions to truly recover. And for goodness sake, stop voting for the people that are stealing you blind.
January 12, 2011 at 9:15 am
Sadly the Nation is laughing at the State of Illinois today. There is no historical foundation supporting a benefit to tax increases. Breathing evidence of the opposite being true is the turn around taking place in the State of Louisiana. Tax increases only serve to reward the political class and special interests supporting them while adding greater burdens to those enggaed in Honest Hard Work committed to the greater good. Pat Quinn must be recalled for his ignorance and the sloth he promotes. His leadership will only serve to further embed corruption in Illiniois which is likely already the most corurpt state in the Union. My wife and I have seven children and we will bei advising them to raise their families away from Illinois and discourage everyone we know to stop investing in failure. I will be moving my buisness to Indiana ASAP.
January 12, 2011 at 9:16 am
You reep what you sow, good luck LIberals, Arizona will take all the business from you minus the Unions and laugh.
January 12, 2011 at 9:20 am
I live in Indiana. I ma afraid that Illinois will suck us into its hellhole. Arizona is looking better and better all the time
January 12, 2011 at 12:42 pm
Good for Illinois. Year after year your monkeys vote for more communists. Now they just ripped off fuzzy twins with a grin. You’ve earned it Illinois. May you die like California.
January 12, 2011 at 9:23 am
Seriously, so they think that putting a 2% spending limit on the already out of control limit that got us into this mess is a compromise? Tired of hearing that they need to raise taxes and THEN they will look for other ways to cut spending. How about starting with spending cuts NOW and publishing this information every week before any tax hike takes place? And, I do not want to be funding anyone’s pension. Got my own bills to pay and don’t even have a pension! The unions are running this state into the ground.
January 12, 2011 at 9:27 am
Its all George Bush’s fault. This is what Obamatics will bring the rest of the country…….as a reaction to all those evil Bush policies. Illinois is getting what it has asked for and deserves. Too bad there are many good people in Illinois will pay the price for it, but nothing will actually change. This state is beyond corrupt and is in dire need of a political enema.
January 12, 2011 at 9:27 am
100% of this money will be going to pay for bloated union pensions, salaries and benefits and RAISES and it will not even be close to being enough!! You are a fool if you think it will go down it 4 years…it will in fact go up!
January 12, 2011 at 9:29 am
Why would anyone be surprised? Isn’t Chicago where 100,000 dead folks voted for John Kennedy?
January 12, 2011 at 9:31 am
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Another liberal state…broke…wonder why..lol
January 12, 2011 at 9:31 am
Buisness people of Illinois be advised: Wisconsin is open for buisness!!!
January 12, 2011 at 9:32 am
Yeah, with the NEW Red State to the North of Illinois, things are looking up.
I have to say we have to begin stripping some of the liberal laws and entitlements they wrought upon us over the years.
Looking good from what I hear.
January 12, 2011 at 10:55 pm
Corruption is expensive! They took out loans for many years to cover the corruption costs and now they can’t borrow any more. I can say that too; I was born and raised in IL. I decided I was done with IL 7 years ago and haven’t lived there since. Seeing this further verifies my decision.
January 12, 2011 at 9:32 am
Thank goodness I live in Texas. I lived in Joliet years ago and loved it and the people there, but I can’t understand why folks in Illinois keep electing Democrats. They say now the state can pay its bills on time, but they never ask how people are going to pay theirs. Instead of leaving, why don’t you take back your state?
January 12, 2011 at 9:33 am
Don’t tell them that things are great in Texas, they might come here an ruin it for all of us.
I think we should remind the looters that we have a right to carry in TX and you get a medal if you shoot an intruder.
caveat emptor
January 12, 2011 at 10:02 am
Before long only the …stupid will be left.
January 12, 2011 at 9:36 am
What a bunch of corrupt immoral a-wholes this Illinois governmet is comprised of. How DARE they foist the consequences of their own profligacy and irresponsibility on to an already overburdened productive class. STOP THE SPENDING YOU JERKS! Cancel your agreements with parasites like the SEIU, and take your medicine like men, not pantywaist cowardly fops and children. You are contemptible offal, refuse, slime. It’s time to look for a new place to live.
January 12, 2011 at 9:38 am
Illinois, first to default. They will raise taxes on business by 50 percent, and cut spending by some small amount over many years no doubt. The result will be more borrowing as business exits, or is forced to close it’s doors. There is no solution here.
Illinois, first to the federal government with hands out waiting for their entitlement.
entitlement mentality has been the death of this country. Now so engrained in
the American mind as normal, and expected that removal is near impossible.
Watch as the “basket case” states file one by one to the federal entitlement trough to feed. It is the next step in the progression.
Default of municipal/state bonds.
Backstop by the Federal Reserve, as they print any amount needed.
Federal debt exponential rise covered as well by more printing/buying of debt.
Massive inflation as Dollar continues to decline in value.
Hyperinflation as debt to Gross Domestic Product reaches extremes and confidence is lost.
Real austerity measures are needed now.
Real leaders with commitment are needed now.
Real money, most importantly, is needed now. No more fiat backed by nothing.
Real courage and fortitude to follow this path, as the “change” that we really need as outlined above will not be pleasant. Yet it will be MUCH more pleasant than the planned continued printing and hyperinflation. Zimbabwe/USA.
January 12, 2011 at 9:39 am
That is what Illinois gets for voting in democrats. Enjoy your misery.
January 12, 2011 at 9:40 am
The problem with Illinois is the city of Chicago. There are many many Red Republicans in Illinois, but the city and it’s population are pure BLUE. No matter what the rest of the state feels, the Chicago Democrats get what they want. It’s a losing battle. I’m so out of here. The Government can’t take what they do not have.
January 12, 2011 at 9:45 am
Rita, We the people of Texas, invite all our Republican Brothers and sisters to Move down here to Texas. Bring your families and your business! We have Fine colleges for your kids to attend. No state Income Tax and NO UNIONS (per se) We are a right to work state which means if you can’t cut it you get fired and they hire someone who can cut it. Again ALL REPUBLICANS are welcome… Liberal Dems can go to NY, MI , MA You will be welcome there
January 12, 2011 at 6:06 pm
Well, as Gov. Chris Christie said this morning regarding this insult to the people of Illinois, that the states that surround Illinois, will reap the benefits. People will be scrambling to try to find a way OUT.
What else could you expect from unimaginative stooges like this governor that are beholden to their unions, which continually insure their re election, regardless of their poor performance?
Keep it up, and you’ll soon be totally worthless, instead of worthless.
January 12, 2011 at 9:45 am
Isn’t socialism grand? The Democrats have made your bed, now you must sleep in it. Rest In Peace, Illinois.
I guess it’s not really the Tea Party you have to be afraid of after all.
January 12, 2011 at 9:45 am
Who is John Galt
January 12, 2011 at 9:46 am
Lets send the Democrats to Tucson.
January 12, 2011 at 9:48 am
Life is good in the south…great weather. Moved and got 4 acres and a 3,300 sq ft. home for less the $300,000…life is good
January 12, 2011 at 9:49 am
Pensions for public workers are the major problem. You wage slaves must pay more so the public workers can retire early and live a financially comfortable life. What a mess you all created and now you will have to pay and pay. You can’t move because you won’t be able to sell your home and democrats know this. HEY BUSINESS OWNERS, come on up to Wisconsin where you will be able to keep more of your profits. We have great workers looking for jobs.
January 12, 2011 at 9:51 am
I’m leaving!!!!
January 12, 2011 at 9:51 am
CNBC were discussing the tax increase.It was a comedy show.But again,they said Illinois gets what it deserves,Illinois voted for these aholes.
January 12, 2011 at 9:52 am
Wait a minute,Daley just stated that we need to correct the waste.Hey Richie,you just started,your leaving!!!
January 12, 2011 at 9:54 am
This iis GOOD
This is what Dems do, they will let you starve so they can give your money to others. Who they say NEED IT, using their criteria for what need is.
Call it Social Justice after all. This is what you elected after all we have judges claiming that things such as the internet, and phone servive are human needs that must be provided for, and guess who gets to provide it.
January 12, 2011 at 9:54 am
High Income Tax – no income Tax = Texas
When the takers out number the givers, the givers git going
Bye, Bye IL hello TX
January 12, 2011 at 9:56 am
Way to do man. Just put that gun up beside your head or leave the state. Fools.
January 12, 2011 at 9:56 am
Wow. Congratulations Il. Have you figured it out yet? Your problem can be summed up in one word “Democrat”. Are you so stupid that you have not figured out that the corrupt socialist system you call your leaders is failling? There is going to be a mass fleeing of decent hard working people and the only ones that will be left to be governed will be the igonorant and lazy demanding their freebee hand outs. Then where will you get your money. Your just another liberal state run by a bunch of ignorant liberal leaders heading to destruction like California and Michigan.
January 12, 2011 at 9:57 am
My mother lives in the ozarks.Nice home,3 acres of land,trees,wildlife and pays 900 dollars a year in Real Estate taxes.Teachers make 30k-40k a year and 90% of the students atttend colleges/tech schools.
January 12, 2011 at 9:57 am
Social Justice = working people …broke
January 12, 2011 at 10:00 am
I WILL BE LEAVING THIS STATE OF CORRUPTION AS SOON AS POSSIBLE , MY NEIGHBOR SAID HE IS CLOSING HIS COMPANY AND RELOCATING TO INDIANA . THAT WILL BE 150 LESS TAX PAYERS AND JOBS HERE . THOSE SOBS BETTER NOT GIVE THEMSELVES A PAY RAISE EITHER .I HOPE RAHM STICKS IT TO ALL OF THOSE UNIONS THAT SUPPORTED THE TAX INCREASE (democrats )
January 12, 2011 at 10:03 am
This time the democrat mob has gone a bridge too far. Not only have the dems just lost any hope of retaining the state legislature in 2012 BUT this will cost the dem presidential candidate the 2012 election – can’t win a national election when blue states like Illinois turn Republican red!!! Maybe we can even get Quinn recalled in the process.
January 12, 2011 at 10:03 am
After rent and bills, I clear about $100 every two weeks … about 6% of my income. Well, this new 2% has to come from somewhere, and I doubt my rent and bills will be going down because taxes are going up … so now I have about $67 to get by every two weeks. No more movies once a week and a lot more rice to eat … meanwhile, government gets fatter.
In my opinion, here’s the worst line of the whole thing: “The tax hike will be coupled with strict 2 percent limits on spending growth.” Government gets 2% MORE and it’s called a ‘strict limit’ … meanwhile all of us are having to make due with 2% LESS now, and are told “We don’t have a better choice today!” by the likes of Democrat Senator Miller. Here’s a better choice, Senator … YOU in government get by on 2% less or even just a spending freeze, and leave our taxes alone!
January 12, 2011 at 10:05 am
Illinois is a microcosm of what we face in America as a whole. Much of Illinois is conservative, but they are slightly outnumbered by those on the public dole. At the Federal level, we have about 47% that pay no federal taxes, and are a major drain on the economy. Obama wants even more Americans to pay no federal taxes. Once we cross that threshhold where the taxpayers are outnumbered by the parasites, we will join Illinois in their economic death march.
If you have any compassion for the future of your country – stop voting Democrat. How much evidence do you need that liberal economics destroys economies? Big Government always causes economic malaise. Stop rewarding personal failure with your “programs” and your entitlements.
January 12, 2011 at 10:07 am
I think most of the American people are awake now…liberalism just does not work…period. It just took 2 years…too long
January 12, 2011 at 10:07 am
You liberal loons believe that this is going to fix you budget woes. Without cutting current spending levels. Do you hear that Illinois, that is the sound of buisnesses leaving your state. Elections have consquences. You wanted leftwing socialist liberals running your state and you got them, now reap it.
January 12, 2011 at 10:08 am
I live in South Carolina, and work on an economic development board. We love to see states like Illinois commit suicide. Good economy for us! And by the way, keep voting Democrat! It is bad for you, but good for us!
January 12, 2011 at 10:09 am
Please let me weigh in from Charlotte, NC.
We are a city with the highest PROPERTY TAXES in the south. Property taxes here are 2 times those in the 5 counties which make up Atlanta, GA. I pay almost $13,000 a year in property taxes and get my trash picked up once a week. What a deal!
Add to that, NC has the highest income tax in the south. You think 5% is bad? Try 7% to 9% which is what we have here. On top of that we have the highest gas tax in the south, except for FL.
We are nickeled and dimed to death and have nothing to show for it except unsustainable debt. Our state just went to a Republican majority in the house and senate for the first time in over 100 years. It’s about time. Now all we need is to get rid of our Democrat governor, who will not get on board with the repeal of Obamcare.
So, to all my friends in Illinois, and specifically Chicago- if you elect any democrat to the mayors office you are just asking for more of the same. Encourage all your Democrat friends to wake up and realize that the new democrat party is not the old. They are elitist who want your money- all of it- and once in power they will do or say anything to keep it. They do not have your back, so stop having theirs.
January 12, 2011 at 10:11 am
We have been looking at our options in the business, here in IL, for this year and sad to say this has made our options clear now. We are packing up mid year and closing our doors and moving out of state now. This state has become the most $$ grabbing crooks of all times one way or another so we will be glad to hit the borders and good luck on IL raising enough $$ to get out of debt people are leaving in groves just like Cali is doing.
January 12, 2011 at 10:11 am
Yep those making 50K must be ” The Rich” according to Dems.
January 12, 2011 at 10:11 am
One more thing, notice the cowards raised taxes after the elections,not before.
January 12, 2011 at 10:12 am
This officially blows a huge hole in the radical Socialist B/S and Obama Line .
We are for the Middle class .
Yo Mommy !
January 12, 2011 at 10:13 am
Illinois deserves what they have chosen for themselves. Rampant spending on liberal social programs,
January 12, 2011 at 10:15 am
I don’t understand how the people of Illinois voted Quinn back in.
January 12, 2011 at 10:23 am
The people of the windy city area are the ones that put this crook back in.
January 12, 2011 at 10:39 am
Great!! Shore up the lack of revenue by taxing the local citizens. As it should be – don’t tax me to pay for the excesses of Chicago. This is what the citizens continue to elect. Woohoo!
January 12, 2011 at 10:20 am
That is it for me….. I will be changing my permanent tax residence out of Illinois. Fortunately, I have the option to do this. I am also hoping to seel the house and property I own in Illinois as well this year, God willing. My house is located in “downstsate” Illinois. The problem as I see it is Chicago…… I think that most of the rest of the state would love to get away from this tax sucking monster, just like the residents of upstate New York would love to seperate from New York City.
January 12, 2011 at 10:22 am
This only gives people more of a reason to under-report income and otherwise cheat on their taxes. I guarantee you, many will not pay “their fair share” of this ridiculous tax increase.
January 12, 2011 at 10:22 am
get this, they are even trying to tax my Amazon Affiliate account here in illanazi land. never mind that my servers are hosted outside the US. It’s all fair game for the illinazi’s
January 12, 2011 at 11:10 am
More people dependent on the government = more “Democrat” voters
January 12, 2011 at 10:27 am
Not exactly true. If you look at the election results, you’ll see that every republican district still voted for Quinn as their choice for governor.
January 12, 2011 at 10:32 am
yah but da gubbament gives me free stuff, free food, free housing……free good …yes?
January 12, 2011 at 11:07 am
as long as you keep electing Democrats you will have this problem.
January 12, 2011 at 10:28 am
I wouldn’t let the Republicans off the hook that easily.
The state didn’t get to this place overnight. And it certainly didn’t get there riding the back of just one political party.
That’s why the Tea Party is such a refreshing development. I’m not really a “member” of the Tea Party, but I support their general thrust — which is that both parties have failed us and put us in untenable situations.
January 12, 2011 at 10:40 am
All republicans and independents are hereby cordially invited to the great state of Iowa. Democrats, please stay in Illinois.
January 12, 2011 at 10:28 am
thanks for the gracious invite, i’ll be packing my bags tonight… this place sucks!
January 12, 2011 at 10:59 am
FIRST CUT THE WASTEFUL SPENDING.
I am voting against every politician who voted for this tax hike. . These people will continue to raise taxes until the public gets fed up and demands a more efficient management of the funds they already TAKE from the public.
January 12, 2011 at 10:29 am
see i ( state senate) told they would line up in a row and roll over when told
nice duckie
…. next state step forward ….please
January 12, 2011 at 10:29 am
Well I have happily begun seeking a transfer to Texas as of today. Once families with good salaries realize that they can get the same if not more and not have to pay 5% to politicians who campaign on a 1% tax increase and double it right after they are elected, they’ll have to build walls to keep the revenue producers in the state who have the ability to leave, if the jobs don;t leave first. Congratulations to all you who drank the Pat Quinn Kool-aid, I am sure you are happy giving Springfield the extra money, for me it will be temporary! And speaking of temporary, do you really ever expect to see the income tax come down in the future? Funny how the tax rate is not supposed to come down until after the next gubernatorial election in 4 years. If Quinn the taxer wins, I assure you he will not allow the rate to go down claiming a mandate. Good luck.
January 12, 2011 at 10:31 am
HaHaHa Illinois. You get what you vote for. Please don’t come to Colorado with your stupid liberal politics and policy.
January 12, 2011 at 10:34 am
Don’t laugh dude, It’s gonna be the fiscally responsible states who end up bailing out our budget challenged state. It’s not the Illinois politicians fault that they can’t count or balance a budget. After all, they went to public school here in Illinois so they are math challenged. It’s not their fault, please help our state, “it’s for the children you know”
January 12, 2011 at 10:53 am
What are you talking about? Colorado was Californicated years ago and we’re reaping the benefits to this very day. Colorado is a poster-child for a a previously red state that was invaded by liberals fleeing their destruction of one state, only to bring it to another by voting the same idiotic way. It won’t be long before Colorado reaches the bottom of the same Democrat poop-shute
January 12, 2011 at 8:56 pm
Anyone in Illinois who voted Democrat in the last 20 years deserves to stay there and pay their bill. You brought it on yourself. I don’t want you moving out to my state and then voting for bigger government here. Stay there and take fiscal responsibility for the consequences of your vote
January 12, 2011 at 10:34 am
Just what I wrote Ben. Let them stay and sleep in their bed…
January 12, 2011 at 10:37 am
Dahh, err, I can’t count, I went publik schol, but i got solution…to debt problem….lets raise taxes, i don’t need to know how to count or balance budget… all i need to know is – let’s raise taxes. I don’t have to think my way out of a problem.. all i need to know is – let’s raise taxes…. I’m a public serpent, i make my money by the mantra -lets raise taxes… it’s ok for you to go to work and actually produce something.. but me, i publick employe, i say – let’s raise taxes… no matter what the probem… there is a solution…. have you guessed it…. lets raise taxes…
January 12, 2011 at 10:34 am
Public serpent, lol! The only “skill” they require is knowing how to wield a baseball bat at a productive person’s kneecaps.
January 12, 2011 at 5:42 pm
Yeah those jerks “will be paying bills on time now” WILL WE?!?!?! Thanks a bunch to all the fools that voted all those idiots into office. That jerk said all along he was going to raise taxes and yet you all voted him in. How stupid can anyone be?
January 12, 2011 at 10:35 am
Quinn won both the primary and general elections by slim (very slim) majorities. So, you can thank those “fools” who didn’t vote as well.
January 12, 2011 at 10:39 am
How about vote fraud, ya ever give that thought? this is gangsta land after all… day pretty much do what eva it takes to get what day want
January 12, 2011 at 11:27 am
Yes, I am aware of that possibility. But, we can’t have it both ways. If you think fraud played a role, then fine, but we can’t then blame this mess on “stupid” or “foolish” voters.
January 12, 2011 at 12:34 pm
Will the last American leaving Illinois…please bring the flag.
January 12, 2011 at 10:36 am
America is finally waking up thank goodness .
Not by accient at all or informed by the media (Not ) but by a Baseball Bat squarly hiting us between our eyes .
The top 8 of the 9 States that are facing Bankruptsy are “” All Highly Uionized and Socialist Controled ” States .All with the higest taxes in America .
The Gov. of NJ being the loan excepetion b ut he has a 68 % Liberal controlled Congress ..
Calif. is a 30 yr plus year problem with a far left Congres there since Reagan left there as Gov.
While 10 Southern Low Taxed States economies are meeting their bills .
(Not by accident ) .
At least the American people are seeing with clear eyes.
What Strong armed Unions and radical Socialist are doing to this Country .
Both Groups have become NOTHING more than Wrecking Balls to our Economy .
This is what happens when Unions buy leftist canidates Votes .
January 12, 2011 at 10:38 am
Ever wonder why its the dem. states that are going bankrupt? CA. NY. ILL. lets give everything to everyone. If could sell my house (in NY), id be gone. 60 Pct. of my paycheck is gone to the tax man. School and property tax for me is 12K Fed. State, local, sales….they even have the nuts to tax you for mass transit every time you make a cell phone call.
January 12, 2011 at 10:38 am
Don’t worry, Andrew the Evil Spawn of former Gov Il Duce has the solution– PRETEND to cap SOME public employees’ pay for ONE YEAR. Anything that falls short of firing a third of them tomorrow, cutting the compensation of the rest by half and whacking another half through attrition, is not even a remotely serious response.
January 12, 2011 at 5:47 pm
Wow. What morons. Squeeze the productive to give to the unproductive. Nice.
January 12, 2011 at 10:41 am
Yup…..That’s Chicago politics for you…..
Too bad the rest of the state can’t separate from the liberals in the North East side of the state. I hope the country doesn’t think that all of Illinois thinks like the corrupt liberals in the windy city. Because …..WE DON”T. You can put me on the list of those re-locating ASAP. BYE BYE!
January 12, 2011 at 4:58 pm
How can you folks in Illinois stand for this kind of nonsense??
January 12, 2011 at 10:43 am
No problem. Come to Maryland where I live and pay 8% State tax and they still can’t balance the budget. Runaway expenses. It’s not a revenue problem with these State governments. It’s their outrageous committments, expenses, expenses
January 12, 2011 at 10:43 am
Here is news, we don’t want you people moving down south and then voting for the same democrats that ruined where you just came from. If things are so great up there, just stay. If you come south, get with the program and we don’t care how you did it up north. We SEE how you did it up north and we see WHAT you did up north. You’d think you might be embarrassed about it, but Noooo. Yankees are not capable of being embarrassed. They are all democrats fleeing the rats nest they have voted for themselves and now they want to come south and make the same rat’s nest here. STAY HOME. DO NOT COME HERE. We don’t want the utopia you have created up north. Keep your unions and dirty politicians. We don’t want them. Stay in your democrat run state. We don’t want you down here voting for the same left wing, hair brained schemes that you voted for up north. You now have what you wanted and what you voted for, so just keep it. You made your bed, now lie in it.
January 12, 2011 at 10:44 am
Funny how low tax states have more money then…high tax states. duh …liberals are funny…little people
January 12, 2011 at 10:45 am
One more reason that I love living in WA state (no state income tax!)
:-)
Now if we could only get rid of all the libs in office! TEA PARTY TEA PARTY RAH RAH RAH!
January 12, 2011 at 10:47 am
We have much of the same problem here in California…bloated wasteful government created by tax and spend liberals. And much like California, nobody is to blame more than the voters who continue to re-elect tax and spend liberals.
“The people get the government they deserve”
January 12, 2011 at 10:48 am
Gotta love Brownie, all you need is another 12 billion in taxes, and he’ll cut 12 billion. CA is in a death spiral because no one can touch the union monster created by the Democrats. Brownie created this mess 30 years ago, and even he is afraid to smack the monster for fear it will eat him.
January 12, 2011 at 11:20 am
This what those people wanted, they want to pay this.
January 12, 2011 at 10:49 am
Don’t tell them that things are great in Texas, they might come here an ruin it for all of us.I think we should remind the looters that we have a right to carry in TX and you get a caveat emptor
January 12, 2011 at 10:49 am
Don’t tell them that things are great in Texas, they might come here an ruin it for all of us.I think we should remind the looters that we have a right to carry in TX and you get a medal when you shoot an intruder
caveat emptor
January 12, 2011 at 10:51 am
Good luck my friends. If you merely allow them to raise taxes you are doomed, no matter what they promise. As a lifelong resident of Taxachusetts I have seen it all first hand.
Many years ago my state was in a bad fiscal bind, so they passed a TEMPORARY tax hike, from 5% to 5.95%. When that fiscal crisis passed the new temporary tax rate was never rolled back. Finally, a watchdog group campaigned for a ballot initiative, jumped through all the hoops, and got a tax rollback proposal on the ballot. It passed, by a margin of 2-1. Guess what? The legislature refused to ditch the “temporary” tax hike, even AFTER the people voted to order them to. Finally, they grudgingly rolled it back in steps, but only as far as to 5.3%, then they continued to drag their feet until the current fiscal crisis hit 2 years ago at which time it became, well, “irresponsible at this time to even consider a further rollback, think of the children!!”. In fact, to drive home their point, they RAISED taxes again, in the form of a sales tax hike from 5% to 6.25%. They even expanded sales taxes to include alcoholic beverages, which were previously excluded because taxes on them are imposed at the wholesale level. Now, we have the atrocity of paying a tax on a tax since the wholesale tax is built in and we pay sales tax on the total, including the wholesale tax.
Another new ballot initiative was needed last year to get rid of that double-dipping sales tax on alcoholic beverages but the battle is far from over. THEY will be back for MORE! And your legislators will too. As soon as your new tax rate goes into effect they will breathe a sigh of relief and go back to work, spending your money, which is, of course, the job you hired them to do, right?
January 12, 2011 at 10:52 am
“Government always finds a need for whatever tax money it collects.” – Ronald Reagan
January 12, 2011 at 10:54 am
I’m so glad I moved away from the bleeding heart liberal morons and the nut cases that vote for them. It will be Detroit in a matter of years now. Quicker if you fools vote Rammy Manual Hole into office.
January 12, 2011 at 10:56 am
I cannot believe that the good citizens of Illinois would let their elected officials get away with this? Aren’t your taxes high enough now? I guess the Chicago machine continues to move along churning out the same old BS as before. So does this mean that you are electing Rahm to straighten things out?
January 12, 2011 at 10:58 am
If you live in one state and work in another state, you are required to file tax returns in the states where you work. This applies to consultants who may travel out of state to a client for a short period of time. I know this because I live in TN (no state income tax) but have clients in Chicago where I travel frequently. So now instead of getting 3% deducted from my paycheck for all hours billed while in Chicago, I will be getting 5% deducted. This all started a few years ago because of the scandal with professional athletes choosing to live in states without income tax (FL in particular). The other states where this athelete would play were complaining because they weren’t getting any of this revenue. Remember? Now this applies to everyone regardless of income level. The good news is that unless your employer reports this there is no way to track it so if you’re a self employed consultant, don’t report it. You’re breaking the law but maybe it’s time for taxpayers to start doing that.
January 12, 2011 at 10:58 am
I am also a consultant and have had the same problem of being taxed in states with high tax rates although I don’t live there. I put all of my income in a spread sheet and all the expenses required to get to those clients and the taxes I had to pay for going there and decided I could use that time to serve clients in states where i don’t have that problem. When I explained my resons to my clients, they agreed and many said they would move if they could.
The blue states are all going under. They are all democrat states. DUH!!! When are people going to begin to make the direct relationship between being broke and being a democrat?
January 12, 2011 at 11:10 am
Is this the community BO disorganized? Many more businesses will be leaving as will many of the more affluent residents. Maybe when the lib states like IL, NY, CA and WA start going bankrupt they will learn the super-costly lessons of the so-called ‘public employee unions’ (thugs) and dirt-bag politicians.
January 12, 2011 at 10:58 am
Funny how people in all of the demodrat states now have what they have telling the rest of us we need but now they don’t like what they have and want to come out to “fly over” country where all of the great unwashed live. Democrats have ruined state governments all over this country and they are ruining our nation as well. Soon there will be no place to run to and then I am afraid of what will happen and you can bet it isn’t going to be pretty.
If the Tea Party is not successful in replacing these democrat, socialist politicians, I see another American revolution out there.
January 12, 2011 at 11:00 am
“The problem is not that the people are taxed too little, it’s that government spends too much!” – Ronald Reagan
January 12, 2011 at 11:00 am
you people from up north…come south..but only to New Orleans. Much like the hell holes from up north….you will feel at home in New Orleans…lol
January 12, 2011 at 11:00 am
Ok, I will come to New Orleans, but only if you promise to raise my taxes…ok..??
January 12, 2011 at 11:16 am
A wise and frugal government, which shall leave men free to regulate their own pursuits of industry and improvement, and shall not take from the mouth of labor the bread it has earned – this is the sum of good government.
Thomas Jefferson
January 12, 2011 at 11:04 am
Each welfare brood mare,dead person,and typical thug got two-three votes,standard sop for dim thieves.Why is the rust belt called that?And why have they been black dim ruled since reconstruction?Then looka at Haiti and Africa,and ask yourself,why?
January 12, 2011 at 11:05 am
I love it when liberals have to live (and pay for) the society they create. Increase the taxes by another 60%, what do I care. I will never visit this dump of a state.
Good luck getting business to stay and hire people. All liberals have a mental disease as illustrated by the “independent” that killed all those people in AZ.
January 12, 2011 at 11:06 am
This is what happens when you elect liberals, who, bye the way, are ALL thieves. The proof of this is easy. They will take, under threat of force, money from producers and give it to the bling-bling and drug-thug crowd and to ‘public employee union’ members. ALL ‘public employee unions’ must be ended NOW!
January 12, 2011 at 11:08 am
Haiti and Africa = a waste of money…period
January 12, 2011 at 11:08 am
you left out illinois
January 12, 2011 at 12:18 pm
Just get a job to pay for the extra tax costs a Democrat told me…sadly there have not been any jobs the past 2 years…maybe it is time to vote in a different party…they might actually listen.
January 12, 2011 at 11:08 am
Fact..most large cities are run by blacks. Fact most are …broke. Fact America has it’s first black president ..Fact the country is …broke.
January 12, 2011 at 11:12 am
those may be the “facts” but they are not politically correct… And we here in illinois are all about political correctness and, of course, Outrageously obscene and downright sinful high taxes. We prefer high taxes to the 1st amendment here in Illinois, so please keep it politically correct, or we may just come up with an interstate tax for our neighbor states
January 12, 2011 at 11:24 am
When you give a kid the key to the candy store, do you really think he’s not going to gorge on the candy? Blacks in power, with Democrat help, deem themselves “entitled” to others treasure. They dress it up with terms like “social justice”, and “fairness”, but in the end it is just plain stealing. I say let them fail. With the irresponsible borrowing to stay afloat, there hasn’t been enough pain yet to cause a true voter revolt. Obama is doing the same thing. The Tea Party is just beginning to flex its muscles. The blacks and the Democrats will scream RACISM because they have nothing and require others wealth to survive. In the end, the Democrats will be overrun by the Tea Party, and destroyed.
January 12, 2011 at 12:21 pm
Fact: Chicago has not had a black mayor since the late 80′s.
Fact: Illinois has never had a black governor
Fact: Illinois has no U.S. senate representatives
Fact: The vast majority of all Illinois elected officials are non-black
Fact: The national debt has been in the trillions since 1990–Long before Obama took office.
Stop blaming blacks for this country’s problems!
January 12, 2011 at 12:54 pm
Correction: …Illinois has no Black U.S. senate representatives.
January 12, 2011 at 12:57 pm
YOU guys in Illinois need to take that extra $1000 your going to give your inept government to waste, hire a moving truck and movers with it, and GET THE HELL OUT of that sinking ship of a state…
Theres a number of other states that DONT EVEN HAVE INCOME TAX that are doing just fine that you can live in… trust me i know, i was born in souther california and left that sinking ship after 38 years and have never looked back.
January 12, 2011 at 11:12 am
Is this the community BO disorganized? Many more businesses will be leaving as will many of the more affluent residents. Maybe when the lib states like IL, NY, CA and WA start going bankrupt they will learn the super-costly lessons of the so-called ‘public employee unions’ (thugs) and dirt-bag politicians.
This is what happens when you elect liberals, who, bye the way, are ALL thieves. The proof of this is easy. They will take, under threat of force, money from producers and give it to the bling-bling and drug-thug crowd and to ‘public employee union’ members. ALL ‘public employee unions’ must be ended NOW!
January 12, 2011 at 11:14 am
Next election voters will now understand their choices….you can raise taxes like Illinois or fix the problem like Christie is doing for New Jersey. This is the tip of the iceberg though and the states like Illinois, California and New York that don’t clean up the messes they have made will suffer. You just have to look at the states that are gaining congressional seats and which are losing them.
It will be interesting to see what California does in the spring if votes fail to approve their proposed tax increases. Which I highly doubt they will.
I lived in Illinois years ago, but I remember when they put in all the ‘temporary’ tolls to fix the roads. They didn’t end up being temporary nor will this tax increase.
January 12, 2011 at 11:15 am
Just don’t bring your leftwing spending ideas with you.
Many of you people leave and then want to recreate the leftist paradise you just left. Don’t do that. It’s like you haven’t learned so you go somewhere and then you start agitating for the same leftists policies that destroyed the place you left. Talk about doing the same things over and over again while expecting different results
January 12, 2011 at 11:15 am
That’s because liberalism is truly a mental disorder. Liberals flee the pain they cause, but they can’t help themselves from agitating wherever they go. It’s really a destructive mental illness. All liberals, please migrate to the nirvanas of CA, IL, NY, MI, MA so everyone else can start to turn this economy around.
January 12, 2011 at 11:24 am
Come on over to Pennsylvania, Republicans swept all offices in November, more jobs, less government.
January 12, 2011 at 11:21 am
With one raise in five years I was hoping to break even this year. With the income tax increase, my raise will be gone before I get it and I will be further behind than I am now. I hear this is a TEMPORARY raise, and as a lifetime Illinoisan I know there is no such thing as TEMPORAY in this state. It seems the only way to stablize my financial situation is to retire, sell my home and apply for disability. It makes no sense for me to continue working, in pain, every day with no relief in sight.
January 12, 2011 at 11:25 am
Or leave for another state. States like IL, CA, NY will be the first to see real voter revolts.
January 12, 2011 at 11:27 am
I seriously doubt it. I don’t know about IL but having fled The People’s Republic of NY (for TX), and presumably in CA as well, Jeffrey Dahmer– if he were still polluting this Earth– running as a D would crush Jesus running as an R by at least 2-1, even if they showed him eating babies at campaign stops. No hope at all for either of those braindead communist dungpits, not even to dial it back to “Stupid” from being “Stuck on Idiotic” for decades.
January 12, 2011 at 8:14 pm
The legislatture will do all it can for as long as it can before it addresses the real problem of spending in any substantive way. Further, they will not cut their own perks nor those of the state employees. Watch as jobs leave Illinois, revenue drops and they sink further and further. Fast forward a few years and there will be a taxpayer revolt in IL. Maybe the then mayor of Chicago, Fishbow Rahm (he’s sure to “earn” the win), will have to deal with it himself. That will be fun to watch!
January 12, 2011 at 11:25 am
Why is it all the liberal states are bankrupt?
Maybe it is time for the States to begin to break off from the Union…we would be better off without the “Representatives” in Washington.
January 12, 2011 at 11:26 am
We as we say in the South, “Is you is they constituency, or is you ain’t?” If you just sit back and let them get away with this, shame on you. If you let the governor of Illinois sign this bill, then I’d suggest kicking all those bums out of office.
January 12, 2011 at 11:27 am
Just got laid off last week and now nothing is tying me or my wife to IL/Chicago. I will not put up with this. After 13 years in Chicago it’s time to move back to my ancestral homeland of MN.
January 12, 2011 at 11:28 am
Hate to tell you, but the taxes are going even higher there. They already have chased most companies away with their high taxes and welfare state.
January 12, 2011 at 2:01 pm
ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha
All you stupid voters in Illinois are now getting the government you deserve
January 12, 2011 at 11:35 am
yep, and you can say the same thing on a Federal level as well, Illinois is just the precursor (poster child if you will) of what is in store for the rest of the country if we don’t stop em. You think the international bankers are going to be satisfied with little ol illinois… think again, they want the IMF to own the whole enchilada!
January 12, 2011 at 11:41 am
I here by kick the vipers out!….have they left yet?…. why are they still here?… why won’t they go away… I tried to to vote them out… but they can’t count… so they may have miscounted the vote slips along with the budget monies. They may need some extra prodding to leave.. i better go find my pitch fork… it’s never easy .. is it?
January 12, 2011 at 11:36 am
Yeah, got to say that I’m a moderate democrat (though have always voted Republican in state elections), and I’ve never been this angry at my politician. Surprisingly, a fair number of my liberal friends are talking about moving out of this state over email this morning. One owns a small company with a few employees and has revenues of about a million a year; he has already started the process of moving the company to Colorado where he’ll just hire new staff when he gets there. I’m at the crossroads of having to decide whether to start my kids in school in Illinois over the next two years or bite the bullet and get set up somewhere else. I just can’t see any benefit to living in a state where things get so bad that we get hit with a 67% tax increase.
January 12, 2011 at 11:37 am
The leftists know what they are doing when they raise taxes. They know that ultimately, it will cause more chaos. But this is what they want, since their Bible is “Rules for Radicals,” by Saul Alinsky.
The end justifies the means. In this case, this is a tactic to collapse all systems so that the people have to depend more on government and give them more control. Obama has been following Alinsky rules for years. It is not logical to raise taxes with so much unemployment. They know this, but the tax hike will bring you Illinois folks down more, just what they want.
January 12, 2011 at 11:38 am
people should quit complaining and just move out of the state. new jersey has the same problem. these people (politicians) are just dim-witted hacks who love to spend your money to gratify their egos and satisfy their lust for power. none of them are business people who ever had to balance a budget or go out of business. they also pick up up qute a bit of graft on the side and can raise their own salaries at any time. the only solution is to move.
January 12, 2011 at 11:44 am
It’s the new drive more people out of Illinois act. In the end the revenues to the state will decease as more moving vans head south.
January 12, 2011 at 11:47 am
Like western Europe, we all will face an economic collapse due to the 45 years of Democratic spending. “Free Stuff” is not free, especially when only 50% of all American have to pay for it. No society can sustain itself by rewarding failure and punishing success. We have way too many parasites on welfare, disability or some other form of government assistance. unemployment benefits are now the new form of PERMANENT welfare. Democrats have created generations of lazy Americans that do nothing in return for the money they receive from the taxpayer!!
January 12, 2011 at 11:50 am
Illinois used to be a great state to live in. It is now becoming the California of the Midwest. One of my relatives left for Iowa recently to make a new life, sick of the taxes and how expensive it is to live there anymore. I used to live there but moved out in the 80′s, glad I did. I do miss the farmers though…
January 12, 2011 at 11:52 am
Where are all the people from California, Illinois, New Jersey and all the other bankrupt Democratic controlled states going to go? Red states with balanced budgets, low taxes and politicians that understand you cannot spend more than you take in!
January 12, 2011 at 11:54 am
Stay home you big spending liberal democRATS live in what you created
January 12, 2011 at 12:01 pm
And who did you vote for??
January 12, 2011 at 11:57 am
See…
iamthewitness.c o m
January 12, 2011 at 11:58 am
It’s not a revenue problem … it is a spending problem. The solution is to quit re-electing those politicians who undermine your freedom to choose. Blame yourself Illinois … now that I have helped elect a conservatively fiscal representative in the US Congress I will make sure they don’t vote to bail out your sorry state and irresponsible citizens.
January 12, 2011 at 11:59 am
Blame bush !!!!!!!!!!!!
January 12, 2011 at 12:03 pm
We Need those Tax Increases. How Else can we Support
Those Fat Union Salary’s and Benefits The Democrats Demand.
Well, this is what you said you wanted when you voted Democrat.
January 12, 2011 at 12:00 pm
Osabama is your saviour
January 12, 2011 at 12:04 pm
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January 12, 2011 at 12:09 pm
AIN’T LIBERALISM GRAND!?
January 12, 2011 at 12:10 pm
Illinois business owners. TEXAS has NO STATE INCOME TAX and is PRO BUSINESS. We welcome you but be sure not to vote for democrats once you arrive.
January 12, 2011 at 12:10 pm
Forget the relatively few “greedy” corporate/wall street execs – you should be very angry at the millions of uber-greedy union hacks. The private sector is now beholden to the corrupt, union monster created by the Democrats. It is the oft-maligned private sector, or what’s left of it, that the Democrats count on to pay the bills.
January 12, 2011 at 12:12 pm
I am super excited that this is happening to illinois. i hope this makes the news everywhere. 66% increase on taxes. that is awesome. Higher corporate tax.. that is awesome.
you reap what you sow. now enjoy your harvest.
January 12, 2011 at 12:13 pm
We can give up steak and eat ACORN
January 12, 2011 at 12:16 pm
Aww, what are you guys whining about? The US obviously needed an additional Detroit. We can even call you guys Gary Indiana’s sister city.
January 12, 2011 at 12:16 pm
How can they raise taxes on private employees only? Why do government workers and teachers not get tax increase? I feel robbed.
January 12, 2011 at 12:17 pm
They should get taxed too. State employees benefits are way too good for the citizens of IL.
January 12, 2011 at 12:22 pm
The poor get poorer in IL. Mass exodus in play. Isn’t Boeing HQ there? They moved from Seattle due to the high B&O tax. LOL Yeah, last one leaving turn the lights out.
January 12, 2011 at 12:21 pm
Elections don’t have consequences…electing liberals has consequences.
January 12, 2011 at 12:23 pm
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You have been getting robed for years, in case you just didn’t know it. people better wake up real soon.
January 12, 2011 at 12:25 pm
Florid and Texas don’t collect state income tax, but watch which COUNTY you want live in those states. Miami-Dade PROPERTY taxes are 3-times more than most other FL counties. Liberal counties are often worse than your state when it comes to taxes, high crime and regulations.
January 12, 2011 at 12:27 pm
If you don’t like high taxes stop voting for Democrat Marxists. The people in this state deserve what they are getting. Democrat are Marxists and they will steal you money through taxes. It happens every time. Vote them out…do a recall election and get rid of them.
January 12, 2011 at 12:28 pm
The pols just erected a huge GET OUT of Illinois Sign for all state residents to see. HELLO Texas, Florida and other LOW TAX states. Illinois, you are TOAST!!!
January 12, 2011 at 12:36 pm
I will be moving out of Illinois as soon as I can. I am lucky that I live near the Iowa border, where I can get gas anywhere from 10-40 cents cheaper, thanks to lower state gas taxes over there. One thing they could do is limit their personal use of government vehicles. My state rep lives just down the road and he uses his state vehicle all the time for personal use. That is our money used to buy the vehicle, our money for upkeep, and our money for his gas while he does personal business.
Also, universities could quit throwing out perfectly good items such as furniture and replacing it with new, just so they can use up their budget. I personally witnessed the changing of every single light bulb in every building on the WIU Macomb campus, even bulbs that had been changed within a month. I watched great wood office desks and chairs destroyed and thrown out and replaced by new so they could use up their budget. I watched every curtain taken out of university housing and replaced by blinds, just to use up their budget. The curtains were in good shape, but placed in the dumpster. Yet you can walk across campus and see the grounds maintenance employees sitting on their mowers talking to each other, or sitting on their plows talking while the sidewalk next to them is coated with ice. This is waste, but no one wants to face it.
January 12, 2011 at 12:37 pm
I hope you are paying your use tax on that Iowa gas. You are not stupid enough to publicly post on the internet that you are breaking the law, are you?
January 12, 2011 at 3:13 pm
just shut up and pay you taxes. I need more free stuff, food stamps and medicaid Obama said i would not have to worry if i voted for him. I hope to get a fat raise next year too.
January 12, 2011 at 12:38 pm
A message for Pat Quinn,
Reduce your pensions, cut your spending and do something for a change for the people of Illinois to really help them to prosper My rate of pay was reduced at my company and my family and I had to make cuts in our spending to survive.
I can no longer afford to live in this state, and sadly I do not think I can find anyone foolish enough to buy our home and continue to live here also.
What happens when Illinois is like Detroit is now? Who will you get monry from to pay your salaries?
If it was up to me you would have never gotten elected.
January 12, 2011 at 12:38 pm
LOL – Whatever! Increase the tax rate 300%, it would never be enough for the tax and spend liberal Democrats. The state is done, a credit rating worse than most third world countries.
January 12, 2011 at 12:38 pm
The higher taxes will generate about $6.8 billion a year.
Not if more families:
Foreclose on their homes
Declare bankruptcy
Buy fewer goods/services which charge sales tax
Move out of state
In a few years Chicago will look like Detroit
January 12, 2011 at 12:38 pm
Illinois not just Chicago
January 12, 2011 at 12:42 pm
Good ol’ Illinois/Chicago politics, you never let us down. The current dragging economy has put a damper on the customary treasury-pilfering, so top up the coffers again and dig in. People be damned of course. Let ‘em eat cake.
January 12, 2011 at 12:39 pm
This only applies to people making more than a 1/4 Million per year, right?
In the last 2 years I have realized multiple tax increases:
Sales Tax up another 1/2%
Gasoline Tax
Cell Phone tax up 5 to 7 Dollars per phone
Vehicle registration fee doubled
Drivers License renewal
Property tax up, while home value went down (school district got that).
Tax on Smokes
Some kind of state related “fee” added to my power bill.
R134a refridgerant (your cars A/C) $3.99/lb to $16.99/lb
State mandated “lead abatement” fees in a lead free home.
Im not even a member of the UMC.
January 12, 2011 at 12:47 pm
You can always move here to Maryland where are tax rate is 7%.
January 12, 2011 at 12:55 pm
i think murder rate is up too.
January 12, 2011 at 12:56 pm
I say raise the rates ten fold. You get what you deserve. The voters keep putting these tax and spend democrats into office. Time to reap what you sow.
January 12, 2011 at 12:58 pm
just pay your debts and vote differently from now on.
January 12, 2011 at 1:07 pm
I’m looking at paying $100 a month more between this & the property tax increase we just got hit with. How can families, especially middle class families like mine, afford this? And there’s no guarantee that they’ll stop the spending.
January 12, 2011 at 1:01 pm
BTW, if you need a reason, look for the big sucking sound out of the northeast part of the state.
January 12, 2011 at 1:05 pm
“Government is a broker in pillage, and every election is a sort of advance auction in stolen goods.” ~ H. L. Mencken
http://911essentials.com
January 12, 2011 at 1:06 pm
This tax hike is a disgusting backroom deal. Add our house to the list of foreclosures as we leave the house keys on the kitchen counter. Can’t get out of IL fast enough. You politicians are worthless.
January 12, 2011 at 1:07 pm
5% is still way too low!
California’s income tax is 9% and they also put an additional 1% surcharge in incomes over $1 million
Hopefully, this much needed increase in investment will continue.
The rich need to pay their fair share.
SOCIAL & ECONOMIC JUSTICE, NOW!!!
January 12, 2011 at 1:16 pm
I am guessing you are a troll and a simply trying to be abrasive.
You speak in Progressive-speak, however, so you could just be crazy enough to believe what you are typing. Let me clue you in – it’s not “investment”, it’s someone elses hard-earned money. “The rich” don’t need to pay their fair share, the parasites like you need to take less from society and give more back in terms of societal productivity. “Social & Economic Justice” are merely buzzwords for income redistribution, aka stealing from the rich to buy the poor’s votes.
As a liberal, you probably don’t even know you suffer from a serious mental illness. Please enjoy your time in Chicago. You will have plenty of opportunity to “pay your fair share” once the productive residents are finished fleeing.
January 12, 2011 at 1:30 pm
Another liberal thinking someone else’s money is theirs. A sad mindset that’s driving our country into debt.
January 12, 2011 at 2:47 pm
sooo true. The government knows best what to do with YOUR money. Liberals are like children that will never leave home…remember..it’s all for the children….
January 12, 2011 at 4:25 pm
They can come and invest in Illinois where taxes are lower.
January 12, 2011 at 3:03 pm
All of you in Illinois are welcome to come to Texas where we have no state income tax. It’s hot in the summer, but nice in the winter. I wonder if Boeing regrets choosing Illinois over Texas for their corporate headquarters?
January 12, 2011 at 1:17 pm
Boeing and Illinois brobably made some kind of quiet deal.
Just a quess.
January 12, 2011 at 1:41 pm
Probably more than Napoleon & Hitler regretted invading Russia. I wonder if the people responsible for that decision will be promoted to scrubbing toilets within the rest of their lifetimes.
January 12, 2011 at 3:56 pm
I am done with illinois. I am moving my family out by the end of the year.
January 12, 2011 at 1:27 pm
Illinois blows!! It’s testing ground for what we can expect nation wide.. Whow are the dummies voting for thoes crooks??
January 12, 2011 at 1:29 pm
I am done with illinois. I am moving my family out by the end of the year, we are going to Colorado. This state only has one answer, get more blood from its constituents. No one elected really represents the people in their district.
January 12, 2011 at 1:29 pm
I hope you are renting; otherwise, good luck selling your house! LOL
January 12, 2011 at 3:01 pm
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Missouri take note of this. If you can eliminate your state income tax like the rumor floating around Jeff City then you will have literally thousands of new residents relocating from the IL side of St. Louis as that would me a 5% pay rise for us. Not to mention a sizable portion of us IL residents already work and buy fuel in your state. Give us that final incentive to jump the river. And you Chicago folks, good luck, not too many places nearby to run. But when you have Cook, St. Clair, and Alexander being the only counties going for Quinn and they have the most freeloading/dependent residents in the state then guess what, the winner will take care of their base!
Illinois unions, you cannot be given two chances at a wage freeze for a few years and reject them both times and not expect the company to give up and move 1,000 of your good paying union jobs to Mississippi, yea, this is to you clowns at Winchester. And now alot of these guys will go to St. Louis for work and wala they will pay MO income tax and will get a credit for tax paid to other states for IL income tax so IL loses twice! Jokers.
January 12, 2011 at 1:39 pm
The socialist gangsters of Obamaland will have their gulag with the degenerate social bacterial that live off the productive. I live in the Peoples Republic Of Mass. BUT!!! I pay not State or Federal Taxes and haven’t since 1994 and pull in 120K, thanks suckers. Get to work Comrade Obama needs your $.
January 12, 2011 at 1:39 pm
Wisconsin is OPEN for business!
We have just given business friendly officials power in state government. They are actively and aggressively CUTTING taxes.
If you own a business or want more job security please come to Wisconsin. We welcome your jobs and business!
January 12, 2011 at 1:47 pm
Democrats in power ALWAYS raise taxes. They gotta buy those votes. What a bunch of suckers. So glad I left that state. Unfortunately I may have to leave Iowa too.
January 12, 2011 at 1:48 pm
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Come on down to Florida where we have no income tax, no snow and gorgeous weather most of the year.
January 12, 2011 at 1:55 pm
Illinois lawmakers are the epitomy of socialist-Democrat economic ignorance. They just passed a law mandating income taxes on Internet Sales from Amazon. The results of this stupidity is that they DESTROYED the businesses of thousands of Illinois citizens/companies that sell on Amazon.
Amazon DROPPED all their Illinois partners. The internet is tax free; let’s keep it that way. It is the only area of business in the United States that continues to grow in these difficult times.
Illionois lawmakeers are CLOWNS. This increase in the State Income Tax is going to result in lower revenues for the State and more people leaving Illinois for other states.
January 12, 2011 at 1:56 pm
Clowns is right, lawmakers here have been compared to the Simpsons. Governor Quinn is Homer and Speaker Madigan is BART……….it’s a laugh a minute in Illinois!
January 18, 2011 at 12:29 pm
All of the states that are broke financially are RUN BY DEMOCRATS!! (e.g.- IL, MI, NJ, MA, CA, NY, etc.) Only a FOOL would vote for the Dems in an election. The sad fact of the matter is, although there are a handful of common-sense Dems around the country, the ONES IN POWER set the agenda and it ALWAYS includes favoring the welfare state and ILLEGAL aliens and high taxes and EVEN HIGHER spending……………..
January 12, 2011 at 2:07 pm
If you check carefully, you have an army of public employees making more than you, the indentured slaves, are paying for, including benefits you will never get and retirements you will never see. Their children go to public institutions of higher learning for free or at great discount. They are the new nomenclatura. protected and coddled by your legislaturers out of fear for their political lives from public employee unions.
January 12, 2011 at 2:07 pm
People that voted for Quinn should pay 7% and the Brady voters still pay 3%.
Will raise the same amount of money..
January 12, 2011 at 2:08 pm
This should be called the “Rich and middle class, get the heck out of Illinois, we no longer want your investment” Income Tax Hike Bill.
January 12, 2011 at 2:17 pm
2 things Florida does NOT have:
- snow
- Income tax
Just sayin’
January 12, 2011 at 2:19 pm
2 more things Florida has that Illinois does not:
- Republican governor
- Republican supermajority state legislature
Just sayin’
January 12, 2011 at 2:23 pm
The people who keep voting these crooks in, are getting what they deserve.
January 12, 2011 at 2:35 pm
Yes, pension protection.
January 12, 2011 at 3:08 pm
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I hope the large roar of that whooshing sound of wealth and jobs leaving the state isn’t too deafening for the state legislators and governor to hear their own blowhard speeches. To quote Churchill “I contend that trying to tax your way into prosperity is like standing in a bucket and trying to lift”! All they will accomplish by this is drive the state deeper into debt and kill jobs. Hats of geniuses.
January 12, 2011 at 2:41 pm
Combination of stupid Cook County voters, strong-arm Union voting practices, ACORN-like policies. We wind up getting too many people voting that aren’t actually impacted by a tax hike. You look across the state map and there is WAY too much control of a state by one city/county. I think our founding fathers had it right the first time…you had to own property to vote.
As some have said, the Democommies said they were raising taxes during the election and people voted for them anyway. I guess it is time to move…if the way this state’s been run the last 8 years wasn’t reason enough to remove Dem control, I don’t think anything will.
January 12, 2011 at 2:50 pm
Bye
January 12, 2011 at 2:54 pm
In related news, Chicago will soon be renamed to “West Detroit”
January 12, 2011 at 2:51 pm
I was thinking more like North Havana.
January 12, 2011 at 4:04 pm
The tax increase won’t be permanent? It’s was 3 now 5 and then 4 in 4 years???? Sounds permanent to me. We just elected republicans in all branches of government here in Michigan. Illlinois business we welcome you just around the bend.
January 12, 2011 at 2:51 pm
Illinoians will bellyache for a while but they will soon forget. In fact, Obama signed a 2% decrease in FICA withholding for 2011. Most people in Illinois won’t even notice the 2% tax increase! This was a work of genius on the part of the Democrats.
January 12, 2011 at 2:57 pm
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THe only people who are to blame are the voting public of the Illinois electorate. Your vote has consequences when you vote in the tax and spend politicians. Get educated, stop voting with emotion, stop voting for the lessor of two evils and stop buying into the two party paradigm.
January 12, 2011 at 3:00 pm
Maybe the voters are pensioners or union members. It is to their advantage to vote in the Democrats. This is who the people wanted.
January 12, 2011 at 3:07 pm
Missouri has gone wall-to-wall R except for St. Louis County, which is still conservative compared to IL. Come on over, we have a great Tea Party organization.
Our state income tax is on the way out as well.
Illinois–the land of strip clubs, no helmets on bikes, and East St. Louis. Get out now!
January 12, 2011 at 3:02 pm
Last time I drove through Missouri, there was a sign for a strip club at just about every exit. Who would want to live there?
January 12, 2011 at 3:05 pm
It’s your choice not to live there pal, is it your choice to pay more taxes????? Besides the corners you are talking about is where maybe your relatives hang out at…. so what.
January 12, 2011 at 3:12 pm
I’m guessing a stripper?
January 12, 2011 at 8:29 pm
Ahhh, more of that liberal agenda. I hope all Democrats and libs are happy. This is what you vote for over and over, those on the right will either leave the state, spend less or invest less and somehow simply leave the state, and if need be move out of a country that has a penchant need to steal more and more. First they miss-manage the money then, they stick it to us with the excuse that they need more to fix what they didn’t do to begin with. Amazing, and the people keep voting Democrats is, so live with it….lol
January 12, 2011 at 3:08 pm
Before they pass a law making it illegal to make comments that can be perceived as threatening, where’s my gun?
January 12, 2011 at 3:10 pm
If that happens then it will be communism in Illinois and USA
January 12, 2011 at 3:16 pm
What do you expect from the state that brought us Obama……
January 12, 2011 at 3:10 pm
Kenya raised their taxes too??? Where does it end?
January 12, 2011 at 4:11 pm
What a sneaky way to raise taxes. Raise it from 3 to 5% and then drop it to 4 %.
In my book that is a 33 % permanent tax increase. I’m glad I left this state 5 years ago. Nice job of burying the increase deep in the story.
January 12, 2011 at 3:16 pm
yep that’s right up the taxes… when this state has high unemployment they can have the people pay with their unemplyment checks, if these poor people still get unemployment! Oh, wait their will be more unemployed people because you morans raised the small business’ taxes too. Wake up Illinois its time to recall these fools…. and some of our newly elected Rhinos!
January 12, 2011 at 3:18 pm
My wife wanted to take a trip to Chicago in 2010. I live out of state and about 4 hours from the city.
I’m not really sure how anyone affords to live in downtown Chicago. 2 days of that stuff was enough for me. I tried to find an reasonable hotel and thought I did. The surcharges, and taxes on the taxes on the taxes was enough for me. Highest hotel bill I’ve ever paid in 38 years, and I travel quite extensively.
I told my wife to enjoy it while it lasted as we drove out of town. We will never be back. Dem vs. Rep vs. Tea…… blah, blah, blah. Most government at all levels are clearly proving to anyone with a brain that they are broken. If anyone thinks all those lawyers….. I mean politicians…… can fix what they have created, they are sorely mistaken. Too many hogs at that trough.
Taxes never go down and they never quit spending.
January 12, 2011 at 3:30 pm
TEXT ‘ROSE’ TO ’69622′
January 12, 2011 at 3:41 pm
Will the last person to leave kindly turn off the lights.
January 12, 2011 at 3:50 pm
Attention all residents of Wisconsin, Iowa, Missouri, Kentucky and Indiana:
Please address all thank-you notes for your revenue windfalls to:
Building Full of Drooling Idiots
Post Office Box DUH
Springfield, IL 62706
January 12, 2011 at 3:50 pm
Hahahahaha. have fun you stupid Illinois residents. You elect union puppets who spend money on union pet projects then wonder why you get taxed.
Just keep electing those democrats. That should do it for you.
January 12, 2011 at 4:08 pm
It could happen here is paradise, Hawaii. Republican is a curse word. The thing is the majority will still be believing they still have rich people living in the State
January 12, 2011 at 4:20 pm
Good Times
Any time you get a tax hike
Good Times
Any time you’re getting bent
Good Times
Springfield dragging your @$$ under
More getting hassled, more getting hustled
Holdin’ your head underwater
Stealing as much as they can
Forcing extra layoffs
Good Times
Public union ripoffs
Good Times
To keep ya from survivin’
Good Times
And hangin’ in a chow line
Good Times
Ain’t you lucky you got Quinn
Good Times
January 12, 2011 at 4:21 pm
Vote with your feet.
If you have a business, move to a state with no income tax like Nevada.
January 12, 2011 at 4:31 pm
Chicago has to have the MOST CORRUPT political system in this country-that says much. You all continue to allow the system to allow illegal actions, including the inclusion of rambo for mayor. It follows that your corrupt system demands that you pay for its corrupt players and their constituents. In a time where cuts to government and its players needs to happen, you continue to elect those who have their hands in your pockets already. Unfortunate for Illinois that Chicago exists at this point in time. Good luck to those who try to play fairly…..
January 12, 2011 at 4:32 pm
Now is a great time to open a Moving Company in Illinois. The same thing has happened in NY City and Detroit.
I would like to take this opportunity to welcome all of you future Texas residents (zero income tax and still in the best shape of any state in the Union.). Come open your businesses here. It helps Dallas home values (which have still managed to go up over the last 2 years) due to the influx of refugees from Democrat ideology.
January 12, 2011 at 4:33 pm
STAY OUT OF TENNESSEE
January 12, 2011 at 4:36 pm
and Alabama..lol
January 12, 2011 at 4:57 pm
And Washington! We have enough of you barking moonbats!
January 12, 2011 at 6:05 pm
And Washington State, not that it’s much better here with all the Subaru driving Obama lovers and gangs of illegals milking benefits as a sanctuary state.
January 12, 2011 at 9:00 pm
This is rich(no pun), What’s the state gonna do when this doesn’t work? Tax some more? Like Margaret Thatcher said, “socialism is great til you run out of taxpayer money”. SHouldn’t be long now. On a brighter note Rahm is coming back to town to run for mayor. What a hoot.
January 12, 2011 at 4:38 pm
I also agree with Deena. What are these politicians thinking??? Driving the poor (me) into homelessness?!? I can barely afford $500 a month for a VERY tiny studio, keep food in the fridge and many times have to walk to get around because $86 a month for a bus pass is many times out of reach for me. The job market is STILL not where it needs to be, and it seems no one is really doing anything about it other than give the “we hope it gets better” speech. For me, its either eat, and keep a roof over my head or take the bus. I cannot afford to do it all. I’m poor, and now I’ll be facing even tougher times so they can live even better? YES! These politicians are fattening up their wallets, sending their kids to the best schools, living in mansions, taking expensive trips ON US, using funds that are meant to help the people of Illinois as their own piggy banks (how many times have we seen THAT in the news!), “business” dinners they place on accounts..that WE end up paying for, and completely mismanaging the funds that should be allocated to helping the people of this state. THAT’S what the money is for – yet here they are with their hands out asking for more??? You are not doing enough FOR the people of Illinois. Raising taxes, not doing anything to help the jobless, cutting much needed programs. I can already see the headlines. These extra monies you are going to get, is only going to fatten your wallets even more. What about those who are working tirelessly just to barely survive going to do when this hits them??? What will you do to help those that will not be able to help themselves .. turn the other cheek as you slap down your company card to pay for another expensive “business” dinner that we yet again will be paying for? I’m so disgusted. So much for trying to get ahead. I just don’t get it. I think I should get into politics, at least I’ll be able to live like a fat rat.
January 12, 2011 at 4:45 pm
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Maybe the “THE RENT TOO DAMN HIGH” party should get a foot hold in Illinois…lol
January 12, 2011 at 5:04 pm
LOL…..I guess this means Boeing will be moving back to Seattle.
January 12, 2011 at 5:26 pm
LOL I do not feel sorry for people in ILL, you all keep electing these people.. and now they are in Washington!! lord have mercey
January 12, 2011 at 5:35 pm
Actually, Felonois’ LIVING voters did their part (barely) but for some peculiar reason corpses are extremely passionate about their communism. Go figure.
January 12, 2011 at 5:51 pm
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If anyone thinks the tax increase is only temporary, then they’re bigger suckers than the dopes who voted for 0bama
January 12, 2011 at 5:59 pm
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The Wisconsin Governor is telling businesses to move there and he will give them a tax break for two years. So let’s see how that hope and change works in Illinois now.
Other Republican governors are excited about the prospect of gaining Illinois businesses too. I love it.
January 12, 2011 at 6:12 pm
Can a leopard change his spots? Don’t think so, and neither can liberal politicians. Your state is dying and headed for financial oblivion. As soon as you seriously cut entitlement spending and lower taxes, you will see a change.. But every one knows you won’t. It’s really sad to watch.
January 12, 2011 at 6:17 pm
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“The house is in fire”, certainly Mr. Quinn, it’s because YOU AND YOUR sosdem
bodies set it in fire
January 12, 2011 at 6:28 pm
I do consultant work for a company in Champaign, IL, near Frasca field. The owner told me a few hurs ago that they are moving out of Illinois 3/1 – that is 147 jobs gone – moving to Franklin TN – Tried to get him to move to Ohio where I a, but even with new leadership, we cannot compete with TN
January 12, 2011 at 6:35 pm
This is what I don’t understand that people keep voting the same people into office. When will they ever learn? Don’t you know you’re paying for entitlements and pensions – Socialism, is it working for you?
January 12, 2011 at 6:53 pm
Read John Kass article in the Chicago Tribune 1-9-11. He is on the money with these things we call politicians in Illinois.
This is one horrible state to live in and double that with living in Crook County.
January 12, 2011 at 6:54 pm
What a non-story. As a California resident, I would love to be paying only a 5% State Income Tax Rate….I am paying 9.3% Ridiclous!!
January 12, 2011 at 6:57 pm
Yes indeed. And, your new governor has not addressed the states funding in the tens of billions of taxpayer dollars that fund illegal aliens… welfare, etc…
January 12, 2011 at 7:03 pm
Oh man, advice from a kalifornian. What a worthless commodity that is. kalifornia elected jerry brown, it’s like throwing an anvil to a drowning man. Advice from a kalifornian. The gall. What a riot.
January 12, 2011 at 9:52 pm
Elections have consequences.
Where is the community organizer?
Where is rahm emanual on this?
Look, if you will continue to live there and vote for these fools, then you deserve to reap what you have sown.
January 12, 2011 at 7:01 pm
Please cut the comments, Illinoisans deserve what they vote in. Many of us, in fact, hundreds of counties in Illinois did not vote these idiots in office. I believe it was only three counties in the state of Illinois that determined the election outcome in Illinois. So SAD. It would be a Dream if the majority of counties where Quinn and his cronies did not win the vote could suceed from the ones who voted in favor of him.
January 12, 2011 at 7:13 pm
I moved to FLORIDA from ILLINOIS 30 YEARS AGO….Those of you that vote Democrat and refuse to leave the state of Illinois are reaping what you sow…I have NO SYMPATHY for you….. BTW…what are the Tri-State Tollway Tolls up to now??? ( I am 56 years old…)
NO SYMPATHY…you stay in that Liberal Cesspool…You Pay!
January 12, 2011 at 7:18 pm
sow/reap Standing by in the Maryland Freistadt to see want Governor Martin O’Malley will pull out of his…..errrrr……pockets to keep the Peoples’ Republic here afloat. We are broke too. this one party thing has not worked too well.
January 12, 2011 at 8:03 pm
If the revenue does not equal the expenditures then you must get the expenditures in line with revenue. You don’t increase taxes you reduce spending. It’s really very simple.
January 12, 2011 at 8:14 pm
If you voted for these clowns, haha…deal with it. If not, MOVE!
January 12, 2011 at 8:22 pm
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Top 100 school administrators drawing 1 BILLION dollars in retirement benefits. Wow. Bet they feel like they earned it too. Any fool left paying taxes better run fast or go underground, off book.
January 12, 2011 at 8:55 pm
Tax slaves! That is what Quinn just made those of us private sector workers in Illinois. Slaves to machine Democrats and their fat union campaigners.
Slaves to the Service Employees Union and Chicago Teachers Union. We pay while they play.
Quinn, Madigan, and Cullerton believe that they just paid off their past and future campaign debts to unions and Rainbow Push. Unfortunately for the rest of us – these parasites are never sated.
January 12, 2011 at 9:03 pm
Time to either throw all Democrats out or time for all those with moderate to high incomes leave Illinios.
January 12, 2011 at 9:11 pm
Guys, I would not invite any Illinois people to come to any other state of the union, except Michigan, California, and New York. Unfortunately, they all belong to the AAUZI (Anti-American Union Zombie, International). They really don’t care if their employer leaves the state and puts them out of a job; they were just too rich anyway. They love the Dems and put any Republican stupid enough to get elected in jail. For pity’s sake, this is where BoObama came from. Those Illinois folks put him in state office and then elected him senator. You don’t want these folks!
Got Ammo?
January 12, 2011 at 9:11 pm
Actually Yes I do have PLENTY of AMMO Look I invite every Downstate Republican NON ZOMBIE to come to Texas. Tell you what to be fair we will have a trade. We will pack up the remaining 49 dim members of the Texas House (they had 75 BEFORE THE ELECTION ) and trade them 1 for 1 for (R) Reps.. I would say that we would do that with congress critters but you don’t have as many Republicans as we have dims (We still have 9 dim Congress critters) Then for every 1 downstate Republican NON ZOMBIE will will give them 2 of ours that way they can have all of them and the Producers will have a state free of the lazy and unmotivated.
January 13, 2011 at 11:53 am
Pay up sucka, and don’t forget to vote Democrat!
Signed,
Your local union municipal employee
January 12, 2011 at 9:14 pm
These tax increases are wrong. It was another secret deal, performed during a lame duck session, late at night and the early AM. We The People are being made to pay for the government’s spending. I specifically wrote my Illinois state representative, senator, and governor and said reduce the budget to have no deficit and start paying off the debt. Eliminate most funding for public education and let volunteers pay for it (if any). There is no doubt much more that can be cut like the salaries of elected officials, like the satellite offices of elected officials, like the governor’s discresionary slush fund,, cut all research (scientiific, social, etc.) We The People are being made to pay for the elected officlals political bribery and waste. – Perhaps the incoming elected officials can cancel this tax and cut the spending. God Willing! (Let”s do a better job supporting Bill Brady for governor!.)
January 12, 2011 at 9:14 pm
This is great news. Now the rest of the country won’t have to bail out you bunch of Chicago losers!
January 12, 2011 at 9:17 pm
The hard workers in Illinois will have to give up more of their hard earned money for the Union Pensions and the people On the Dole. This is so sick. The Liberals love taking your money to pay the lazy and the unions off for votes, When will you learn???
January 12, 2011 at 9:21 pm
I love how the liberal idiot who wrote this says the tax hike is not permanent because it drops to 4% later on. Hey Einstein, it started at 3%!
January 12, 2011 at 9:29 pm
love it out here in Flyover Country…low state taxes, respectful neighbors, & republican state govt. Join us as conservatives, or fall with the liberal states of Illinois, kalifornia, etc…. no flaming liberals though, speak your mind, but moderate to conservative or you will make us like you! lol.
January 12, 2011 at 9:36 pm
Beautiful. The obama state get what it deserves, more taxes, and Rahm Emanuel. Fate has created a masterpiece.
January 12, 2011 at 9:44 pm
They have to increase it because thieves don’t report income tax due to stealing their income or dealing drugs. Add insult to injury…you all elected Obama and now you act so surprised this is happening.
January 12, 2011 at 10:06 pm
“The last official act of any government is to loot the treasury.” ~ George Washington
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January 12, 2011 at 10:10 pm
I don’t want to hear about how everyone in Illinois ‘deserves what we voted for’. … because I live in downstate Illinois … a little house on the prairie, even … and our part of the state didn’t vote for this … we’re being bled dry by the corruptocracy in Chicago … I say it’s high time we seceded from Cook County and it’s environs … let THEM try to pay their -own- bills, pensions, and union kickbacks for a change. Let them and their dependents stew in a recipe of their own making and stop bleeding us country ‘peasants’ dry for excesses. We have a North and South Carolina … and a North and South Dakota. Time to have a North and South Illinois!
January 12, 2011 at 10:18 pm
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Quinn lied, Illinois died. Mr. Statesman said in his campaign that he would veto any tax increase that exceeded 4%. The increse to 5% that his partners in crime just rammed through at the last minute of the lame duck session (another insult to those of us who foot their reckless spending) represents a 662/3% increase. Give a leftist a 331/3% increase and he will take a 662/3% increase every time. Quinn repeatedly says we (the state) must pay our bills. Translation, “Since we will not cut the wages and gold- plated pensions or increase the employee contributions to health care insurance to our sacred cow state employees, those of you in the private sector must cut your household budgets by 2%.” Guess what your highness, my pay rate has been frozen for four years. My health care contribution doubled last year. My hours have been reduced from thity eight to thirty five.I also work fifteen hours at a part time job. my total income is 38k. The only way I can absorb this exorbitant increase in tax is to give up my one week vacation to Lake Superior in the summer or drop my cable tv. I will drop my cable tv. (sorry comcast, but you know, Uncle Quinn can’t cut anything) I think I deserve one week of relaxation and I relish the thought of spending that money in another state. Most of the several billion dollars you anticipate recieving from your tax inrease will be drained from the private sector economy. I am sure that will hurt every business and employee in the state. As usuual, you statists are capable only of destroying wealth and ignorant of how wealth is created. You disgust me. By the way, all of you who voted for this garbage, your taxes are really going up even more. You see, they also raised the tax on corporations. Haven’t you people figured out how this works – the corporations pass those increases along to you in the form of higher prices. It gets even worse for some of you, some of those corporations may just head on out. Bye-bye job. Their is one ray of hope, alas, seven states still manage to get by with no state income tax. And some of these actually have more pleasent weather. Something to think about when you see your paychek shrink.
January 12, 2011 at 10:27 pm
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That sound you’re hearing is the stampede of the remaining producers, businesses and individuals fleeing Illinois and headed to states with less punitive taxes.
January 12, 2011 at 10:44 pm
You know what’s great?
When my husband and I left Illinois almost two years ago, we were called crazy. We had great jobs and lived in Winnetka. It’s really unfortunate when it’s not only the politicians that you can’t stand, but also every one of your neighbors.
I was born and grew up in the surrounding Chicago suburbs, and when I went to college out-of-state I vowed never to come back. Unfortunately my future husband moved back to Chicago, and we lived there for a little over 9 months before practically running out of the state.
It was seriously embarrassing to watch people around me compare Obama to Christ. I have always been seriously involved in politics, and the rhetoric disgusted me. On top of that, the Treasurer of Cook County, Todd Stroger, raised the sales tax rate to be the highest in the nation while giving his cousin a job AND a 9.5% raise.
As we moved away and friend and foe congratulated us on our shiny new banjo (we moved to the South-obviously), I could feel the stress of impending bankruptcy and utter chaos, both at the personal level and state level, lifting from my shoulders.
We watched from a distance as the state imploded on itself.
I can tell you, as an avid supporter of State and Civil Rights (the Federal Government is abominable), it’s truly sad to see the theft and lies those in power convey.
Congratulations to those in Chicago! You voted for the thieves and support the thieves with the money they stole from you! And I’m sure you think Rham Emmanuel is a gem, a true Saint for the Cause.
January 12, 2011 at 10:55 pm
This nations done. Its lawmakers are a joke and the only way they can balance a budget is to raise taxes to compensate their lavish life style.
January 12, 2011 at 10:58 pm
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Illinois might have asked Oregon how that tax hike worked for them ROFL!!! Net loss in revenue LMAO!!
January 13, 2011 at 6:49 am
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Illinoisans, your state is packed to the Gills with ILLEGAL ALIENS…just check out Luis G’s district! Ask your state rep’s, especially the Demon-Rat’s, how many ILLEGALS they plan to have REMOVED from your state in response to the bust-out? My guess would be: NADA!
January 13, 2011 at 10:16 am
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Does anyone else think it’s just coincidence that the 2% State Income Tax increase come precisely at the same time of the 2% decrease in FICA? I think Springfield had to ram this through quickly not because some R’s are coming in but so that Joe Six Pack doesn’t see any difference in his check tommorrow and says “So what’s the big deal?”.
And raising the Corp Tax Rate? Great idea. That’ll get some compaines to move/stay here.
January 13, 2011 at 9:12 pm
All governments should stop all money payments and benefits to illegal aliens before coming to us, citizens, with their greedy palms, otherwise it is an ABUSE OF POWER. The citizens of this country is a party to the social contract we call the U.S. Constitution, and we DID NOT sign on to pay for illegals. We are not subjects and for most people, the Federal government is not our boss. They work for US!!! It’s about time they understand it.
January 13, 2011 at 10:33 pm
What A BUNCH of SLEAZE BALL Liberal CHEATS
Theft through Edict is a it is, in 6 years Illinois can Kiss my Money/ Business and MY Butt Good Bye
The Constitution says no taxation with out representation,the majority of citizens say no more taxes,So We are not represented. Just Robbed by Edict again
January 13, 2011 at 11:59 pm
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I live in Illinois and the people here need to stop whining. You want welfare, you want low college tuition, you want free medical care for welfare people, you want public housing, you want all sorts of social services, you want free breakfasts and lunches in school, then we have to pay the cost to provide those services. If you feel the same way I do, then stop free medical services, get rid of illegal immigrants, stop all welfare payments, stop all social services, and maybe we will be able to reduce taxes in this state. Its time for people in this state to stand on their own two feet and stop being a burden on everyone else who work hard. Its time for many people to stop gaming the social services system. Its time for government workers to stop gaming the pension system by carrying over vacation and sick time allotment from the previous year to receive a pension greater than your base salary. This goes for the teachers in Illinois as well. They play their games as well. Until there are real changes in Illinois, STOP WHINING. You got what you deserve.
January 14, 2011 at 9:56 am
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The least our wonderful elected officials could do is use some of that newly stolen tax revenue to send every taxpayer in this state a tube of KY.
January 15, 2011 at 4:19 pm
Raise taxes at midnight before you leave office…against the will of the people. As I once heard…”you can’t fix stupid”. No whining here…we are heading for a red state. Tax increases don’t work when people leave.
Final request….can we have another election? These poor lunatics apparently did not get the message. Thanks Pat Quinn!
January 17, 2011 at 10:14 am
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HEEE HEEEE U ALL DESERVE IT… LEAVE ILLINOIS TO ALL THE BLACK WELFARE QUEENS
January 19, 2011 at 7:50 pm
Illinois is a union run state. I have also heard that Gov. Quinn is givng an 8% pay increase to all government workers effective July 1.
January 20, 2011 at 1:48 pm
I live in illinois ,and it sucks,.i cant leave because of family and owning
a small buisness that i will lose because illinois just caters ro large
buisness, one these days i will leave and hope alot of buisness leave
dont move to illinois it sucks, the poloticians are crooked
January 20, 2011 at 8:58 pm
More jobs = more taxes – simple math. Our major crop is corn and we make ethenol out of it (E-85 gas). E-85 gas is 15% less efficent than regular gasoline. yet the price is only 15% less than gasoline. Why would you want to put this in your tank and risk knocking and less performance?? The price should be a lot less. This would generate a lot more jobs!
January 20, 2011 at 9:13 pm
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I don’t know anybody who makes 50G’s a year. So this leaves me and mine out. Bout dam time you guys carried the weight instead of the little guys! Quit yer belly aching!
January 21, 2011 at 2:26 pm
April, I hate to break it to you , but the increase in % of income tax one pays effects everyone with a job. Not just those making 50k a year. That was an example of how much it has been increased. Anyone with a job pays more now. Also, many that do make 50K a year also support a family of four on that….NOT just themselves.
January 21, 2011 at 2:54 pm
Does his mean Obama’s taxes go up? Isn’t he an Illinois resident? Are are taxes going up because there are less people paying taxes because they do not have jobs. And now, we will have even less people paying because they are moving out of state or, business will need to lay off due to the corporate tax increase. And what about the proposed Property tax increase. How much can they squeeze out of us? Its a wonder this world suffers from depression.
January 23, 2011 at 9:03 am
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So the state over spends and spends foolishly and we that work have to pay the price. How typical of a state and country gone horrible wrong. Those in power in Illinois need to be gathered and horse whipped. After that they need to be imprisoned for treason. If you want to tax something tax porn, alcohol, and cigarettes. Stop overspending on unnecessary and foolish things. I hate the job the people in power are doing. We need a revolution.
January 28, 2011 at 11:46 am