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Rally Wants Better State Budget
State employees and service providers say the state's budget for Fiscal Year 2010 would be fairer if wealthier people paid more, and if state services weren't cut. That was the subject of a rally organized by the Campaign for Illinois' Future, billing itself as a coalition of about three dozen groups. They rallied at the Capitol Wednesday morning.

Some had visual aids -- for example, some university workers made gallon milk jugs into hats with a "2%" label with a red line through it -- symbolizing a proposal for those workers to pay 2 percent more into their pension fund.

Gov. Pat Quinn stopped by the rally to encourage the crowd, though some in attendance said they did not believe Quinn's proposed income tax increase -- raising the flat tax from 3 percent to 4 1/2 percent while tripling the state’s personal exemption -- goes far enough.

(Illinois Radio Network)
04 22 09 by Newsroom
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