State spending will increase in 2012. That is, unless additional cuts and policy changes are added to the general fund budget currently awaiting Gov. Quinn’s signature. Following the close of the spring session, many news outlets reported that the House and Senate had passed a 2012 general fund budget of $33.2 billion that cut overall...

If the vote been delayed for the new legislature to be sworn in Illinois there is a good chance the income tax hike vote wouldn’t have been passed.

See where the Institute has been featured in the news regarding the proposed income tax hike.

We were not kidding when we said the online sales tax collection bill was a job- and commerce-killing move.

Another bill to kill jobs in Illinois.

The Illinois House of Representatives is considering plans to borrow our way out of the state's budget mess.