With No Budget, Rauner Delivers Illinois State Of The State

The plan reportedly focuses on giving state employees a choice. He says his lawyers are working with Cullerton’s staff to finalize legislation. The governor has indicated he would consider a tax increase if Democrats back his policy agenda.

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Instead he reiterated his demand for “structural reform” that will unleash the state’s “competitiveness” before he’ll let a budget pass. The idea is essentially an extreme version of Reaganite trickle-down economics, under which the rich get richer, the poor get poorer and the middle class disappears. But the English teacher said that wasn’t always her passion in life. Rauner said he wants to work with legislators on improving IL schools.

Colleges and universities across IL are joining to make a case to Springfield to pass a budget.

Read these excerpts of statements from both Democratic and Republican leaning organizations and see with whom you agree most.

The Governor treated the enactment of a fully funded budget that invests in families and communities as an afterthought, failing to mention the issue until the final two minutes of his speech.

“Illinois’ public health system and our ability to respond to emergencies is being dismantled by the governor and lawmakers’ failure”, said Miriam Link-Mullison, director of the Jackson County Health Department.

“We believe very quickly we will begin to derive significant cost savings, massive long term savings”, Rauner said. Rauner has blamed lawmakers for the budget impasse, saying they’re unwilling to compromise with him.

But reforming IL schools wasn’t a big emphasis of Rauner’s first year in office.

Rauner also mentioned that he’s agreed to support a pension proposal from Senate President John Cullerton.

Gov. Bruce Rauner wants reforms to the Illinois’ criminal justice system to reduce the prison population.

When he vetoed a bill a year ago that would have sent deadlocked negotiations to arbitration, Rauner promised to continue negotiating in good faith.

The Rauner administration did not respond to Ward Room’s request for comment. Chicagoan Rosalina Chavez says she and her 12-year-old son James relied on the Teen Reach program at Burroughs Elementary, until it was shuttered last year. They say the budget impasse is stopping that.

“Likewise, the recommendations for the elimination of some of our highest-in-the-nation units of local government, including pension reform, education reform and procurement reform seek to make IL work better for taxpayers”.

“Social service programs are suffering”. He later reversed course. Rauner says he’s committed to his plans for fundamental change.

“We have the second-highest property taxes in the country”.

Halfway through its current fiscal year, still without a budget and locked in a political stalemate with no end in sight, IL has come up with an effective way to close its widening budget gap.

Despite Rauner’s signals that he’s open to a tax increase, it’s Democrats who’ve refused to truly negotiate, she said.