You don’t get a raise for doing your job.
You get a raise for doing an exceptional job, and the promise to do even better down the road.
Does this sound like the Illinois General Assembly?
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You don’t get a raise for doing your job.
You get a raise for doing an exceptional job, and the promise to do even better down the road.
Does this sound like the Illinois General Assembly?
Hidden in the budget rammed through the legislature over a single weekend is a lawmaker pay hike of $1,600. Gov. J.B. Pritzker refused to use his veto pen to strike that provision in signing the budget June 5. The raises will hit lawmaker bank accounts July On the same day, every Illinoisan who visits a gas station will see their bill go up.
The same state lawmakers who gave themselves a raise in a record-spending $40 billion state budget also passed a $45 billion capital plan. To pay for it, they doubled the state gas tax, hiked vehicle registration fees by $50 for most vehicles, hiked the cigarette tax, imposed new taxes on parking and changed the tax structure for online shopping.
The gas tax hike will cost a typical Illinois driver $100 more per year. And the state gas tax will automatically increase with inflation going forward. Illinoisans’ total tax and fee burden on their gas will become the second or first highest in the nation, according to Tax Foundation data.