State Rep's Report

While Election results from Tuesday’s General Election will not be certified for several weeks, it certainly appears that voters have summarily rejected an effort backed by Governor JB Pritzker and Illinois Democrats to change our State Constitution to allow for a progressive income tax increase, which they believed would annually raise $3.7 billion in new taxes.

It is not surprising that voters are sick and tired of the games played by Springfield politicians with continual and broken promises on tax increases. Indeed, past “temporary” income tax increases were made permanen...