Opinion: This is a classic liberal bait-and-switch—vote now on a promise to fix a fiscal mess, pay later as the fiscal mess gets worse
The last state to adopt a progressive income tax was Connecticut in 1996, and we know how that turned out. Now Democrats in Illinois want to follow Connecticut down the elevator shaft with a referendum replacing the state’s flat 4.95% income tax with progressive rates they will set later. This is a classic liberal bait-and-switch—vote now on a promise to fix a fiscal mess, pay later as the fiscal mess gets worse.
A supermajority of Democrats in the Illinois Legislature voted last week to place a constitutional amendment on...
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