Bruce Rauner has sought to “cut pensions and destroy unions instead of bringing people together to grow our economy and pass a balanced budget. He’s proposed letting Illinois file bankruptcy, which would destroy the state’s credit rating and cost taxpayers billions in higher interest payments; he’s been fighting against working families, vetoed a minimum-wage increase, closed small business development centers, and halted state infrastructure projects, putting thousands of people out of work. He has dismantled the state’s commitment to agriculture.” The decline in higher education spending per student in recent years has led to students choosing out-of-state colleges that offer more competitive tuitions, then we lose those educated young people to other states. JB Pritzker pledges to honor pension contracts, never skipping pension payments, and plans to correct the flawed, exorbitant property-tax assessment system. He supports decriminalizing marijuana, legalizing and taxing it, reducing mass incarcerations and reinvesting in our communities; he supports adequately funding our public schools, restoring funding for universities, which are hubs of economic growth, workforce training and innovation.
Trish Forsyth Voss
Oct 12 2018
My thoughts on the 2018 IL governor’s race:
Bruce Rauner has sought to “cut pensions and destroy unions instead of bringing people together to grow our economy and pass a balanced budget. He’s proposed letting Illinois file bankruptcy, which would destroy the state’s credit rating and cost taxpayers billions in higher interest payments; he’s been fighting against working families, vetoed a minimum-wage increase, closed small business development centers, and halted state infrastructure projects, putting thousands of people out of work. He has dismantled the state’s commitment to agriculture.” The decline in higher education spending per student in recent years has led to students choosing out-of-state colleges that offer more competitive tuitions, then we lose those educated young people to other states. JB Pritzker pledges to honor pension contracts, never skipping pension payments, and plans to correct the flawed, exorbitant property-tax assessment system. He supports decriminalizing marijuana, legalizing and taxing it, reducing mass incarcerations and reinvesting in our communities; he supports adequately funding our public schools, restoring funding for universities, which are hubs of economic growth, workforce training and innovation.
Trish Forsyth Voss
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