by Ted Dabrowski and Paul Schumacher In 2011, when Illinois legislators passed the largest income tax increase in the state’s history, they promised to roll back the increase beginning in 2015.  “We have some temporary tax increases that are designed to pay our bills, get Illinois back on fiscal sound footing and make sure that our state...

Lawmakers have not earned the right to borrow billions more. They were unable to pay down the state’s massive backlog of bills with a $7 billion tax hike – how does anyone think they’ll be able to do it with $2.5 billion in borrowing?

We keep looking for leadership – and we keep ending up with politics.

One year after Illinois’ Democratic leaders pushed through a record tax hike, the grades are in. The tax hike flunked. It failed to put Illinois on sound fiscal footing. It failed at restoring confidence in government’s ability to meet serious challenges head on. It failed to strengthen the state’s economy. It failed to create opportunity...