{"id":548130,"date":"2010-04-30T14:04:52","date_gmt":"2010-04-30T18:04:52","guid":{"rendered":"tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8341c60fd53ef013480460d0a970c"},"modified":"2010-04-30T14:06:03","modified_gmt":"2010-04-30T18:06:03","slug":"quinn-tones-down-budget-rhetoric-in-final-week-of-session","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/548130","title":{"rendered":"Quinn tones down budget rhetoric in final week of session"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Posted by Monique Garcia<\/em> at 1:05 p.m.<br \/><\/br><\/p>\n<p>As lawmakers enter the waning days of the spring session, Gov. Pat Quinn today toned down his sometimes heated rhetoric about making an income tax increase part of a new state budget.<\/p>\n<p>Quinn refused to say if he&#8217;d sign a budget if it did not include his proposed 33 percent income tax rate increase. The governor said he was confident lawmakers would find a solution next week before their scheduled departure May 7.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;Most of the time the Illinois legislature in its last week gets more done in terms of actually passing bills than all the previous weeks put together,&quot; Quinn said following a Chicago news conference to commemorate Polish Constitution Day. &quot;So I am anticipating next week to be very busy.&quot;<br \/><\/br><br \/><\/br>Quinn also signaled that he would be open to alternatives to fill the budget hole beyond his tax hike proposal, including a cigarette tax increase and additional borrowing, though he called that &quot;the least best alternative.&quot;<br \/><\/br><br \/><\/br>&quot;I think the most important thing is to have proper education funding in Illinois, that&#8217;s the outcome that&#8217;s just indispensable,&quot; Quinn said.<br \/><\/br><br \/><\/br>Still, Quinn warned that he wouldn&#8217;t sign off on any plan just so lawmakers could go home for the summer, noting he vetoed the first budget that was sent to him last year.<br \/><\/br><\/p>\n<p>&quot;I want to see the final product of the legislature, if it doesn&#8217;t have proper funding for education you can bet your life that, you know, we will be working and working until we get to that point,&quot; Quinn said. &quot;You cant go backwards on education and have a strong economy in Illinois.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>Lawmakers today went home for the weekend in anticipation of addressing the budget starting Monday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Posted by Monique Garcia at 1:05 p.m. As lawmakers enter the waning days of the spring session, Gov. Pat Quinn today toned down his sometimes heated rhetoric about making an income tax increase part of a new state budget. Quinn refused to say if he&#8217;d sign a budget if it did not include his proposed [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3992,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-548130","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/548130","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\/3992"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=548130"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/548130\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=548130"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=548130"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=548130"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}