SPRINGFIELD, IL – State Sen. Matt Murphy (R-Palatine) offered the following comments after the Illinois Senate passed a budget package that spends more than the current fiscal year.
“The Democrat majorities have crafted a budget plan that increases spending over last year. When the Democrats passed the $7 billion tax increase in January 2011, they promised to cut spending too. Unfortunately, this is the second consecutive spending increase since that tax hike. This is yet another plan to tax and spend our way into a permanent tax increase. I oppose this budget and the permanent tax increases that it will produce,” Murphy said. “The Democrats’ failure to reduce spending minimizes the chance that they will keep their other promise to the people, that the tax increase will be temporary. There is a recurring theme of spending is going up and it would be nice if the legislative majorities would just admit they are want to make the 2011 $7 billion tax increase permanent.”
