IL Governor Rauner Gets $750,000 Tax Break, Proposes Slashing Services to Middle Class and Poor

[workinclasszero]

Illinois' new GOP Governor, Bruce Rauner, will personally receive a $750,000 per year tax cut as a result of his decision not to continue the state's temporary 1.25% income tax surcharge that expired last year.

Rauner proposed six billion dollars in cuts for state spending on universities, health care, local governments and pensions for state employees.

Here are some high points:

Limiting eligibility for Department of Aging Community Care Programs.
Cutting health care benefits for homecare workers.
Slashing funding for the Department of Children and Family Services.
Eliminating all Department of Children and Family services for youths 18-21.
Cutting adult dental and podiatry services as well as kidney transplants for undocumented children.
Eliminating exemptions for drugs for severe mental illness from a state 4-prescription limit.
Reducing payments to facilities for children on ventilators, supportive living facilities and children with severe mental illness.
Cutting Medicaid spending by1.5 billion - including735 million in cuts to hospitals serving Medicaid patients.
Eliminating assistance to families with Hemophilia.
Freezing intakes on childcare for children over 6.
Increasing childcare copays for working parents.
$27.5 million in reductions to community substance abuse programs.
$82 million reduction to community mental health programs.

Eliminating State funding for specific organizations providing: - Services for people with disabilities - Services to children with autism - Services to homeless young people - Services to run away teenagers - Immigrant integration services - Advanced placement classes - After school programs - Agricultural education - Arts and foreign language programs - Parent mentoring - Safe Schools initiatives

Cuts to breast and cervical cancer programs.
And a 31.5% cut to higher education.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/robert-creamer/il-governor-rauner-gets-7_b_6742500.html

Its good to be king eh? Fuc**n 1%er republicans will loot all wealth from the american public till we end up slaves on their private plantations. Like the koch bros, theirs is called Kansas.

[world wide wally]

1. Seems to be a winning strategy for getting votes these days.

Can anyone explain that?

[workinclasszero]

3. Fox and Friends, Rush, local preacher at their mega church who is a republican and raking in the

dough every week himself tells these people...

OMG! You must vote for "god-fearing" republicans and not those "godless", commie, islam loving, sharia pushing, illegal alien inviting, gun grabbing, gay marriage supporting, dark skinned, potheads, not like us people...GASP>>>DEMOCRATS!!!!

And oh....(scaryuppityblackmaninthewhitehouse)!!!!!!!!!!!@@!!!!!!!!11!1!!!!!


24x7...365 days a year. And that's all they hear, ever, mainly because that's what they want to hear.

Now maybe when these rich pig baggers start laying the smack down on their heads, they will wake up but I wouldn't bet the farm on it!

[3catwoman3]

2. Norman Goldman calls him...

Governor Ruiner.

Illinois is one of 16 states that have a variety of tax exemptions for military pensions. Watch him go after those.

[Tommy_Carcetti]

4. Well, hopefully he'll end up indicted and in prison.....

....just like every other Illinois governor seems to be.

[ProfessorGAC]

5. He's A Major Tool

It was a dark day when i saw that he won the gubernatorial election. The front page of the Sun Times was depressing, seeing that smiling silverspoon idiot on the cover.