“Whether it’s bidding, contracting, what gets bargained, what doesn’t. That should be controlled locally,” he said. “If we don’t include that in our legislation and we freeze property taxes for two years … as soon as the two years is up, they’re going to pop up and frankly accelerate in a lot of communities beyond what they otherwise would have. The real fix is to get local control of costs.”

Comment: And this admission was totally ignored by our ace press corps.

The average income of people leaving Illinois shot up by $8,000 in the first year of the state’s 2011 income tax hike.

It’s estimated that 8 out of every 10 state tax dollars has been freed from the limbo of the budget impasse, much of it either by law or a judge’s ruling.