McKenna calls on Blago to oppose massive sales tax increase
Illinois Republican Party Chairman Andy McKenna today called on Governor Rod Blagojevich to oppose County Board President Todd Stroger’s plan to raise the Cook County sales tax.Posted by Editor“Governor Blagojevich has spent years in Springfield grandstanding against higher sales and income taxes while secretly raising fees and other taxes,” said McKenna. “If Rod Blagojevich is to have any credibility on this issue he needs to tell his friend and ally Todd Stroger that Cook County families simply cannot afford this type of tax increase just to fund their lavish government spending.” Continue Reading
-Illinois Republican Party
October 17th, 2007 at 10:30 pm
I aso agree w/Mckenna, the government bodies should get the message that we have had enough! Lavish is the correct word, I’ve heard of the defined benifit pensions the government employees get, where all the companies have had to go to 401k’s and such.
Chicago tonight had a debate on the question of the Illinois legislature allowing a government-owned casino in Chicago. The way the legislation is written, they said that the City of Chicago would own it, and that would be the first of it’s kind. Unlike the other casino’s in the state. … with Chicago’s casino, there would be no outside oversite.
Here the city would have to police itself with it’s own casino? Where there are so many corruption issues that we hear about,…>>> the city can’t police itself!
There is no way that any City should own a casino.
God Bless the State of Illinois,
Pat From Willowbrook