Illinois will likely be stuck with another unbalanced budget this year, thanks in large part to two retiring Republican legislators.
Illinois Policy Institute highlights votes of Reps. Black, Biggins and Miller on misguided budget policy.
The Illinois House of Representatives fails to pass significant spending reforms.
The Illinois House of Representatives is considering plans to borrow our way out of the state's budget mess.
Illinois Policy Institute Calls on Rock Island board to rectify salary increase gaffe.
Is a tax bill that is 33 percent higher than usual inconsequential?
Kristina Rasmussen has an op-ed featured in the State Journal-Register. She outlines the path the legislature should take to balance our state's budget.
Can you read 2,300 pages in just a few hours? There is no way Illinois state legislators are reading the entire budget before they go to vote on it.
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Tobacco tax hikes come with a number of significant policy complications.
Executive vice president Kristina Rasmussen gives an update on the intense debate going on in the House on the state budget.
Kristina Rasmussen's letter is featured in the Daily Herald. She explains why something like a cigarette tax would affect all taxpayers, not just smokers.
The answer isn't always a tax hike...
An article from the Tribune's Dennis Byrne cites the Institute's Budget Solutions 2011 as an "boldly asserting that the budget can be balanced without any tax increase."