Nerve to raise taxes?

How about some of these legislators get the "nerve" to cut some services.

We, as taxpayers, are seriously irritated with paying taxes to provide all sorts of goods and services to those who don't. We're tired of paying salaries for hundreds of bureaucratic appointees and assistant directors and so forth.

I guarantee you we will be incensed if we get stuck for the tab for the Chicago Olympic scheme Governor Daley, er, King Richard, is trying to engineer. We pay, as Illinois residents, far too much to benefit Chicago as it is.

Government's job isn't to HELP PEOPLE, it's to establish the rule of law and defend us from enemies foreign and domestic to allow us, as residents the freedom to enjoy life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.

Chicago needs to make their own cuts instead of looking to the state to bail them out on their failed urban dependency policies as well.

Let's make cuts, not raise taxes.

That alien concept needs to be introduced to our legislators. Or we're going to introduce them to the world of Joe Sixpackdom next election cycle.

-- Joe

Posted by on July 5, 2009 at 10:51 AM Suggest Removal

I seem to remember the former governor calling a special session to finish the budget and the house minority leader openly tell the his people on camera "not to bothergoing to work."

So imagine the laugh anyone who remembers had when the minority leader this time said Quinn should have called a special session.

Social programs is not what democrates cut, its what republican ask for to be cut in order to not shut down government.

For a major university its strange the college of media does not produce one news show out of springfield.

Posted by aantulov on July 5, 2009 at 9:53 PM Suggest Removal