WBGZ Radio 3/10/2021 |
By Greg Bishop - Illinois Radio Network
As the Illinois Senate returned to the Illinois Capitol Tuesday, leaders from opposite sides of the aisles are eying the state’s troubled finances.
Senate President Don Harmon. D-Oak Park, told the Paul Simon Public Policy Institute Monday since voters last year rejected the proposed progressive income tax increase on higher earners, the day of reckoning is here.
“The only alternative I can think of is to start cutting some of those government services to figure out what tolerance people have for giving up some of those things they assumed were always going to happen,” Harmon said.