While the budget includes significant new tax burdens, Republican lawmakers also blocked several of the most damaging proposals—though they caution that these ideas are far from dead and are likely to return. One proposal would have added a $1.50 delivery tax to nearly every package shipped […]

Governor J.B. Pritzker’s record-breaking spending plan, which relies on nearly one billion dollars in tax increases and gimmicks, passed the General Assembly on May 31. Once signed into law, it will become the largest budget in Illinois history, totaling more than fifty-five billion dollars. That figure […]