By Bill Cameron, WLS-AM News
(CHICAGO) In the Springfield impasse, the Civic Federation is out with a new “road-map” to rescue the state’s dire financial position.
This road-map calls for heavy lifting: putting the income tax back to 5-percent and imposing it on some retirement income, start putting the state sales tax on food and drugs and services and spend less.
Civic Federation chief Lawrence Msall concedes the political outlook for his road-map is gloomy.
“There is nothing politically attractive that we have to offer to the members of the General Assembly expect the growing recognition that not dealing with your financial problems is more expensive in the long run, so that the sooner we address them the better we’ll be,” Msall said.
But so far Speaker Mike Madigan and Gov. Bruce Rauner continue to be immovable objects on a budget deal.
@ 2016 WLS-AM News
