Stop playing games; pass budget

To All Illinois Republicans including Tom Cross, Kay Hatcher and Chris Lauzen:

You’ve stated support for all these services and programs but won’t vote to approve funding for them. Obviously can’t have it both ways. This is simply a maneuver to deceive your constituents that you supported these programs for the next election. You can’t support the programs and not fund them, so who are you kidding?

Tom Cross, you complain in the news all the time, but never give your specific solutions to the IL Deficit. STOP playing games and pass the budget.

Do you really want to save taxpayer dollars? Then stop wasteful spending on the billion dollar plus Prairie Parkway, 3 schools that sat dormant in district 308 that should never have been constructed until needed, landfills with blind trusts and tax loopholes for the big corporations. Pharmaceutical, Insurance, Oil, Com Ed, and Casinos, all have huge profits, but pay a lower tax percentage than most citizens, close their loopholes!

Want to know where Tom Cross and others get their priorities, Google the politicians name campaign contributions.

If IL legislatures fail to pass the proposed income tax increase, these are the ramifications:
Cuts for Senior Services, Mutual Ground, Hesed House and other Homeless shelters, 35,000 to 40,000 social service jobs tied to state contracts, public transit, Hwy 47 & 30 improvements, etc.

Lawmakers would need to slice nearly $7.5 BILLION from the state budget.

14,300 teachers would be laid off. 400,000 students would lose college aid.

100,000 people would lose access to human services.

650,000 people would lose their health care.

271,000 seniors would lose services or property tax relief.

1,000 vets would be kicked out of veterans’ homes and more than 150,000 would lose services.

6,000 undeserving inmates would be released early and 1,000 state troopers would be laid off.

ZERO state funding for public transit. 60 state parks and all museums closed.

This means your towns and villages will cut services or raise local taxes, take your pick. Taxpayers will get what they pay for–and it won’t be much.

Quinn is accepting only $150,000 of his $177,000 annual salary and turning the rest back to the state treasury or charity.

Will all the slash and burn Republicans cut their salaries by 15% for their part time gig?

Please call Tom Cross at 815-254-0000, Chris Lauzen at 630-264-2334 and Kay Hatcher at 630-553-3223 and tell them to stop playing games, pass the Illinois budget and make big corporations pay their fair share.

Chrisi Vineyard

Oswego, IL