Lawmakers approved a legally dubious new tax on targeted advertising services as part of the state budget. Gov. J.B. Pritzker should use his line-item veto power to reject the tax.

None of the three proposed amendments to the Illinois Constitution that would have repealed or endangered the state’s flat income tax protection advanced during this year’s legislative session.

Gov. J.B. Pritzker’s 2019 “Rebuild Illinois” plan created automatic inflationary adjustments in the state gas tax, which could reach over $1 per gallon by 2056.

The new budget focuses on semantics rather than ensuring the right people receive SNAP benefits.

The spending plan passed in a familiar scramble in the final hours of the 104th Illinois General Assembly.

The state’s residents paid over $8,300, which was 18.5 percent more than the national average.