{"id":412411,"date":"2010-03-10T15:55:26","date_gmt":"2010-03-10T20:55:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/illinoiseducationassociation.org\/video\/iea-president-praises-education-tax-proposal-urges-passage-of-comprehensive-tax-reform\/"},"modified":"2010-03-10T15:55:26","modified_gmt":"2010-03-10T20:55:26","slug":"iea-pass-education-tax-and-comprehensive-tax-reform","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/412411","title":{"rendered":"IEA: Pass education tax and comprehensive tax reform"},"content":{"rendered":"
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IEA President Ken Swanson comments on Gov. Quinn’s budget address, delivered March 10, 2010.\u00a0 In his address, Gov. Quinn proposed a one percentage point state income tax surcharge, with the money dedicated to public education.<\/div>\n
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This is IEA President Ken Swanson.\u00a0 Surprisingly \u00a0good news out of Springfield today.\u00a0 As you may have heard, Gov. Quinn has called for an income tax increase to fund public education, to prevent the kinds of mass layoffs, program cuts, and devastation to public education that we\u2019re hearing about every day in the news.<\/p>\n

We applaud Gov. Quinn\u2019s courage in calling for an income tax increase so that we can have quality public education throughout Illinois.\u00a0 Now, it\u2019s not a complete answer.\u00a0 HB174 as passed by the Senate last spring is a more comprehensive bill that addresses not just funding of public education, but the state\u2019s structural deficit, and can adequately fund other elements of state government, because we need a solution that doesn\u2019t just save our schools, we need a solution that saves our state.<\/p>\n

So, please support Gov. Quinn\u2019s call for the income tax increase for education, but join us in calling for a comprehensive solution so that we can save our schools and save our state.<\/p>\n

Let me talk for a moment about Sen. Brady, who has been criss-crossing the state on a platform of \u2018we can cut our way out of this crisis\u2019.\u00a0 No, we can\u2019t Senator.\u00a0 Gov. Quinn has shown today that it takes courage, and it will take a revenue increase, to turn this state around, to stabilize our crisis, and put us on a path to recovery.<\/p>\n

Sen. Brady, yours is a non-starter \u2013 stop it.\u00a0 Acknowledge the reality that we need a revenue increase for public education and for other essential state services.<\/p>\n

On April 21st<\/sup>, we\u2019re going to have a lobby day in Springfield, the likes of which I hope we\u2019ve never seen before.\u00a0 I am counting on thousands of you to be here to deliver the message to the state legislature that we need a comprehensive solution that addresses public education and addresses other state needs so that we can together save our schools and save our state.<\/p>\n

Be here on April 21 and help us deliver that message.\u00a0 In the meantime, please appreciate what Gov. Quinn has put forward today and acknowledge that it\u2019s a great step in the right direction for public education everywhere across Illinois.<\/p>\n

Thank you.\u00a0 Have a good day.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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IEA President Ken Swanson comments on Gov. Quinn’s budget address, delivered March 10, 2010.\u00a0 In his address, Gov. Quinn proposed a one percentage point state income tax surcharge, with the money dedicated to public education. Statement text: This is IEA President Ken Swanson.\u00a0 Surprisingly \u00a0good news out of Springfield today.\u00a0 As you may have heard, […]<\/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-412411","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/412411","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=412411"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/412411\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=412411"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=412411"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=412411"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}