Illinois lawmakers could raid local revenue to shore up state budget, mayors worry – Center Square

Rockford Mayor Tom McNamara said the state’s all-too-often taken the “easy way out...They put all of these burdens, in the form of unfunded mandates like choosing pension benefits, and then tell us we have to cash the checks that they wrote. They cut our funding through the Local Government Distributive Fund and then say ‘I don’t know why our local governments have such high property taxes.’”