Illinois Residents face 66% tax increase ...

[Profreedomokie]

They deserve it for giving us obama.

 

[Biggsly]

Their reasoning for a large tax hike rather than cutting programs: people have planned their lives and become dependent around their welfare programs.

This + welfare = voters.

 

[sigsilly]

You realize that if entitlement spending and excessive gov't spending was cut, lots of gov't bureaucrats would lose their jobs and the remaining ones would catch hell from those who lost the entitlements?
Gov't is a cancer that will need to be cut lose forcibly.
Plus those who rely on the gov't for a free living will start robbing and pillaging once their free ride is taken from them.
We've got some major problems coming.

 

[NikatKimber]

Their reasoning for a large tax hike rather than cutting programs: people have planned their lives and become dependent around their welfare programs.

Hmm... Stupid dumb politickers.

What about this: Cut the programs, because I have planned my life and become dependent on the salary I get paid for my work!

 

[Larry Morgan]

...because I have planned my life and become dependent on the salary I get paid for my work!

Imagine that!! Hahaha.