{"id":331583,"date":"2010-02-17T15:24:25","date_gmt":"2010-02-17T20:24:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chicagopressrelease.com\/press-releases\/tax-increase-backers-protest-budget-cuts-in-springfield"},"modified":"2010-02-17T15:24:25","modified_gmt":"2010-02-17T20:24:25","slug":"tax-increase-backers-protest-budget-cuts-in-springfield","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/331583","title":{"rendered":"Tax increase backers protest budget cuts in Springfield"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>More than 1,000 people who depend on Illinois government for services and paychecks are visiting the state Capitol to lobby for higher taxes.<\/p>\n<p>They say the state cannot fix its $13 billion deficit solely through spending cuts. They argue that such deep cuts would gut state programs, from road repairs to prisons to addiction treatment.<\/p>\n<p>They held a rally Wednesday and then fanned out through the Capitol to lobby individual lawmakers.<span id=\"more-19615\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The event was organized by the Responsible Budget Coalition, which includes groups such as Voices for Illinois Children, AARP and the Illinois Federation of Teachers.<\/p>\n<p>Democratic Gov. Pat Quinn supports a tax increase and wants to pass it this year. But the Republicans competing for his job say they would balance the budget without raising taxes.<\/p>\n<p>Read the original article from <a title=\"Tax increase backers protest budget cuts in Springfield\" href=\"http:\/\/www.pjstar.com\/news\/x1715242459\/Tax-increase-backers-protest-budget-cuts-in-Springfield\"  rel='nofollow'>Journal Star<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Distributed via <a href=\"http:\/\/chicagopressrelease.com\" rel='nofollow'>Chicago Press Release Services<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/5bufb4qSiFnFQvIQRc7MzKI6x6c\/0\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/5bufb4qSiFnFQvIQRc7MzKI6x6c\/0\/di\" border=\"0\" ismap=\"true\"><\/img><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/5bufb4qSiFnFQvIQRc7MzKI6x6c\/1\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/5bufb4qSiFnFQvIQRc7MzKI6x6c\/1\/di\" border=\"0\" ismap=\"true\"><\/img><\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"feedflare\">\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.chicagopressrelease.com\/~ff\/windycitynews?a=dwOI9aMWTM4:vt2koHAH5us:yIl2AUoC8zA\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/windycitynews?d=yIl2AUoC8zA\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.chicagopressrelease.com\/~ff\/windycitynews?a=dwOI9aMWTM4:vt2koHAH5us:qj6IDK7rITs\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/windycitynews?d=qj6IDK7rITs\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.chicagopressrelease.com\/~ff\/windycitynews?a=dwOI9aMWTM4:vt2koHAH5us:V_sGLiPBpWU\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/windycitynews?i=dwOI9aMWTM4:vt2koHAH5us:V_sGLiPBpWU\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a>\n<\/div>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/windycitynews\/~4\/dwOI9aMWTM4\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>More than 1,000 people who depend on Illinois government for services and paychecks are visiting the state Capitol to lobby for higher taxes. They say the state cannot fix its $13 billion deficit solely through spending cuts. They argue that such deep cuts would gut state programs, from road repairs to prisons to addiction treatment. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-331583","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/331583","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=331583"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/331583\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=331583"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=331583"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=331583"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}