McHenry Times

State Sen. Don DeWitte (R-St. Charles) said Gov. Pritzker’s budget “fiasco” is disappointing.

Pritzker's budget will make municipalities' share of state income tax be prorated at 90 percent of the distributive formula, which is fully funded in the current budget.

“The governor has chosen to pick the low-hanging fruit by attacking all of our local governments and municipalities in attempting to steal 10 percent of the sales tax revenue that is rightfully owned of all our local governments and sales tax revenues generated in their individual communities,” he said.

“We just were able to get it back to 100 percent last year after fighting for the last two and a half years and he turns right around and decides to take that money back away from the local government again. That will raise property taxes on all of our homeowners in the state of Illinois.”

The 2022 budget also includes diverting the cigarette tax revenue set to finance the current $45 billion Rebuild Illinois capital construction plan to general spending for a year.

“In exchange for support for Rebuild Illinois, a $45 billion program capital program, the governor agreed to support business incentives for all the businesses in the state to try to stop the exodus of all the people taking their families, their businesses, and their incomes to neighboring states and other parts of the country.”

“He has taken the low hanging fruit and made a fiasco out of it,” DeWitte said.