Editorial: Quinn, Rauner and your taxes
Chicago Tribune
Gov. Pat Quinn and challenger Bruce Rauner remind us, imprecisely, of the frantic masochist who wails “Beat me! Beat me!” and the smirking sadist who murmurs “No.” Here’s why:
Illinois state government was having another lousy day Tuesday, with Moody’s Investors Service criticizing the slipshod excuse for an annual budget that fraidy-cat legislators have passed. Moody’s essentially warned that the budget would force the state that already has the lowest credit rating to “rely on credit-negative practices.” Think assisted suicide.
There’s no good news in that for Quinn. Political insiders can talk themselves purple about Quinn being a victim of fellow Democrats who run the legislature but dislike him, or of Republicans who, no surprise, aren’t riding to his rescue. But we’d wager that most voters have no patience for all that bloviating. Many of them think Illinois is broke and broken, its unemployment rate persists as the nation’s third-worst, and governors are supposed to fix things.
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