Op-ed by Jim Nowlan, includes “… If Pritzker’s plan fails at the 2020 ballot box, when voters can approve or reject it, fiscal chaos might well follow. In our book 'Fixing Illinois' co-author Tom Johnson and I proposed closing the annual budget gap, which has been building for at least two decades, by broadening both the sales tax (closing scores of exemptions and including services) and the income tax, without raising rates. To close the gap would also require modest cuts in pension benefits.”
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