{"id":332540,"date":"2010-02-17T19:16:00","date_gmt":"2010-02-18T00:16:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chicagopressrelease.com\/press-releases\/pro-tax-groups-protest-budget-cuts-at-ill-capitol"},"modified":"2010-02-17T19:16:00","modified_gmt":"2010-02-18T00:16:00","slug":"pro-tax-groups-protest-budget-cuts-at-ill-capitol","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/332540","title":{"rendered":"Pro-tax groups protest budget cuts at Ill. Capitol"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>SPRINGFIELD, Ill.\u00a0(AP)\u00a0 &#8212; 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-19763\"><\/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=\"Pro-tax groups protest budget cuts at Ill. Capitol\" href=\"http:\/\/wbbm780.com\/content_page.php?contentType=4&amp;contentId=5599865\"  rel='nofollow'>WBBM News Radio<\/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\/TC8C4Uj7JJCf8L5q0ZZqHI3QW1Q\/0\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/TC8C4Uj7JJCf8L5q0ZZqHI3QW1Q\/0\/di\" border=\"0\" ismap=\"true\"><\/img><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/TC8C4Uj7JJCf8L5q0ZZqHI3QW1Q\/1\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/TC8C4Uj7JJCf8L5q0ZZqHI3QW1Q\/1\/di\" border=\"0\" ismap=\"true\"><\/img><\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"feedflare\">\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.chicagopressrelease.com\/~ff\/windycitynews?a=QthKh1xhNiM:FVjjglgvRSk: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=QthKh1xhNiM:FVjjglgvRSk: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=QthKh1xhNiM:FVjjglgvRSk:V_sGLiPBpWU\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/windycitynews?i=QthKh1xhNiM:FVjjglgvRSk:V_sGLiPBpWU\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a>\n<\/div>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/windycitynews\/~4\/QthKh1xhNiM\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SPRINGFIELD, Ill.\u00a0(AP)\u00a0 &#8212; 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 [&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-332540","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/332540","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=332540"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/332540\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=332540"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=332540"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=332540"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}