Pritzker’s $52.7B Budget Proposal Funds Migrant Care and Early Childhood Education, Angers Business Community – WTTW (Chicago)

A year and a half since the 1% grocery tax was reinstated, Gov. JB Pritzker wants to eliminate that tax permanently. But doing away with the tax won’t ding the state’s bank account. The tax goes to cities, which otherwise depend mostly on property taxes. Said Illinois Municipal League CEO Brad Cole, “It’s yet another cut for local revenues at the same time municipalities are given more and more unfunded mandates and less and less cooperation. At some point we are going to have to tell every mayor to leave the keys to City Hall on their desk and let the state come in and try to operate local government.”