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Madigan wants $227 million more for MAP grants
Tuesday, May 17, 2016 - Posted by Rich Miller * Just minutes before the leaders are set to meet for only the second time this year, House Speaker Michael Madigan filed a new amendment to a shell appropriations bill…
Cue the “It has no real funding source and is therefore a sham” press release from the governor’s office in 3… 2…
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- Formerly Known As... - Tuesday, May 17, 16 @ 11:34 am:
Why stop at $227 mill? Why not make it a nice, round $500 mill?
Seeing as the General Revenue Fund has apparently become an infinitely replenishing money tree…
- cdog - Tuesday, May 17, 16 @ 11:38 am:
fund it with a 90% income tax on income over $50million and Ken Griffin can pay for it. /s
$1.7B - 50m = 1.65B
$1.65B x .9 = $1.485B
See. There is even a little left over.
- 47th Ward - Tuesday, May 17, 16 @ 11:43 am:
This is what I was getting at in the other thread. Does anyone know if the budgeteers’ “Framework” includes additional funding for FY16 or is it only FY17?
- Lucky Pierre - Tuesday, May 17, 16 @ 11:45 am:
Maybe they can play that Dire Straights song about money at the meeting today
- Anonymous - Tuesday, May 17, 16 @ 11:48 am:
Isn’t the point that the franework is inadequate? That it does not fund proorities?
The problem is that neither side will go first. Repiblicans won’t increase revenue wuthout getting something and Democrats won’t cut spending without getting something. And so the deficit came.
- 47th Ward - Tuesday, May 17, 16 @ 11:48 am:
LP, why not Bryan Adams’ “Cuts like a Knife?”
Now it cuts like a knife
But it feels so right
At some point, your BFF has to cut spending if he isn’t going to raise taxes. Maybe he can start today?
- Tone - Tuesday, May 17, 16 @ 11:50 am:
This would be a great place to eliminate spending.
- Cloonen - Tuesday, May 17, 16 @ 11:56 am:
It is important to not re-elect a Rep that plays video games on the house floor during important debates. FIRE “Candy Crush Cloonen”!!!!!!!!!!!!!
- DuPage - Tuesday, May 17, 16 @ 12:02 pm:
Restoring the MAP grants would help the state universities and community colleges. Even with the recent stopgap funding, they are still on a starvation death march.
- Formerly Known As... - Tuesday, May 17, 16 @ 12:08 pm:
Maybe he can throw in some money for a presidential library or two while he is at it. /s
- Lucky Pierre - Tuesday, May 17, 16 @ 12:08 pm:
Surely there was a 227 million dollar revenue proposal to pay for this filed today.
- Ghost - Tuesday, May 17, 16 @ 12:32 pm:
these headlines bring up images of Dora the explorer…. you could add a fox in Madigans arms and the line swiper no swiping…. cept i support this
we need to push educating our society or become the third world
- Demoralized - Tuesday, May 17, 16 @ 1:22 pm:
==This would be a great place to eliminate spending.==
Getting rid of MAP grants?
It’s getting nearly impossible to keep track of all of the ridiculous things you say when you pop out of your mole hole.
- Kate C. - Wednesday, May 18, 16 @ 7:54 am:
Was “Candy Crush Cloonen” playing a video game on the house floor during this debate? Voters in the 79th District, FIRE, Candy Crush Cloonen!!