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Pritzker will combine SOTS, budget address
Friday, Jan 25, 2019 - Posted by Rich Miller * The governor’s people say Gov. Pritzker will combine his State of the State address with his budget address. This is a fairly common practice. I can’t tell you the number of times I’ve cringed when people who should know better say they wanted to hear more about the budget during the SOTS. They are two separate speeches, unless they’re combined. And considering the budget issues we have, it’s probably best to combine them. State of the State messages are required by the Constitution, but they don’t have to be given as speeches…
Same goes for budgets…
Wednesday, February 20th at noon is the date set by the General Assembly. Thoughts?
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- Anonymous - Friday, Jan 25, 19 @ 2:21 pm:
Be afraid and keep your wallet close.
- Reserved - Friday, Jan 25, 19 @ 2:31 pm:
Is it indicative of the Rauner years that I can’t recall if Rich did a post about Rauner’s end of term report?
- Excessively Rabid - Friday, Jan 25, 19 @ 2:32 pm:
I just want it to be a real budget. No more magic beans.
- Rich Miller - Friday, Jan 25, 19 @ 2:32 pm:
===Rich did a post about Rauner’s end of term report?===
I never posted it. I never read it. I should’ve done both. Oops.
- walke - Friday, Jan 25, 19 @ 2:32 pm:
I always want to hear more about the budget during the budget address.
- Oswego Willy - Friday, Jan 25, 19 @ 2:35 pm:
===Be afraid and keep your wallet close.===
There hasn’t been a pickpocket in the House Gallery since 1894ish…
To the Post,
Great idea, but the trick will be in presentation, combining numbers and facts with rhetoric and imagery.
The delivery will be as critical as the facts and the priorities.
I’ve said many times, which is the reality;
A budget is a weighing and measuring of agenda, policy, and programs.
Heard it so often.
Writing and delivering a speech laying out a budget which is the document of agenda, policy, and program makes sense for a “first speech” addressing these… by this governor.
Can’t wait. It’ll be far more interesting than the nuts, bolts, wonky bites… tall order for the governor and his crew.
Looking forward to it.
- Liandro - Friday, Jan 25, 19 @ 2:35 pm:
Makes sense.
Also, points to walke…agreed!
- lakeside - Friday, Jan 25, 19 @ 2:38 pm:
“I never posted it. I never read it.”
We’re good.
This is the way this terms ends
Not with a bang but a whimper.
As to SOTS/Budget - cool, wrap it all together because the state of the budget *is* the state of the state.
- Anonymous - Friday, Jan 25, 19 @ 2:45 pm:
=====Rich did a post about Rauner’s end of term report?===
I never posted it. I never read it. I should’ve done both. Oops.== Would producing a video in which you have an intern read the report and you comment on it in the style of Mystery Science Theatre 3000 be the most appropriate way to handle this milestone?
- Ok - Friday, Jan 25, 19 @ 2:46 pm:
Rod did a powerpoint
Quinn gave a time-wasting ramble
Rauner dropped his gees
And JB’s gonna ______
- Ok - Friday, Jan 25, 19 @ 2:49 pm:
Rod outsourced his end of term report to Jackson st.
- Lucky Pierre - Friday, Jan 25, 19 @ 3:06 pm:
Can’t wait to hear his tax proposal that promised to cut taxes on the middle class and those striving to get there by having folks like Governor Rauner and him pay their fair share.
He could be in for a shorter honeymoon than Ethel Merman and Ernest Borgnine whose marriage lasted 5 days.
- Anonymous - Friday, Jan 25, 19 @ 3:17 pm:
Lucky, me too. Remember that the median family income in Illinois is $80,000.
- Montrose - Friday, Jan 25, 19 @ 3:22 pm:
“Can’t wait to hear his tax proposal that promised to cut taxes on the middle class and those striving to get there by having folks like Governor Rauner and him pay their fair share.”
I just read that line in my head with genuine enthusiasm as opposed to the intended sarcasm. It read much better.
- Jibba - Friday, Jan 25, 19 @ 3:30 pm:
Anon 3:17, median household income is somewhere between $62K and $65K depending on the source. So a lot more households make a lot more money than they think they do, relatively speaking.
- Anonymous - Friday, Jan 25, 19 @ 3:37 pm:
Right, how high will taxes have to be on the “rich” if the median household and family make $60k and $80k?
- Jibba - Friday, Jan 25, 19 @ 3:52 pm:
Anonymous 3:37…We’ve gone over this subject in the past without a lot of agreement. Those making $200k/year but living in the Loop were appalled to think that they were wealthy given the high cost of living that left little after mortgage payments, private school fees, and funding their retirement. Those living elsewhere accused them of being out of touch with the real world where you might be doing well to get your full 40 hours a week at minimum wage between two jobs at big box stores.
Both have a point, although I tend to sympathize a lot more with the poorer family that has no other choices rather than the family in the Loop that is building wealth in their home and has other choices they can make, such as commuting.
I also suspect not much tax relief is on the way, given the pressing needs for state dollars. Just my 2 cents.
- JS Mill - Friday, Jan 25, 19 @ 4:08 pm:
=Can’t wait to hear his tax proposal that promised to cut taxes on the middle class and those striving to get there by having folks like Governor Rauner and him pay their fair share.=
No worries, you will find a way to lie about what Rauner did anyway.
I hope he proposes a way to raise revenue high enough to pay the bills.
- Anonymous - Friday, Jan 25, 19 @ 4:10 pm:
JS Mill, you do realize that Illinois’ already has one of the highest tax burdens in the US, right?
- Oswego Willy - Friday, Jan 25, 19 @ 4:13 pm:
===Illinois’ already has one of the highest tax burdens in the US, right?===
Cite please.
Thanks.