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Brady Talks Budget Cuts
The Republican candidate for governor is putting a dollar figure on budget cuts.

State Sen. Bill Brady has been promising to cut "a dime on every dollar" of that spending. Now he says total budget cuts would be worth perhaps $4.4 billion, if he's elected.

He says this amount is needed to reduce the state's "structural deficit," which is the amount that spending exceeds revenue, to pay down a backlog of bills in the ballpark of $6 billion, and to pay for tax cuts that Brady proposes. The $4.4 billion, if Brady can do it, would still be billions short of what's needed to cover these costs. Brady says the remaining billions of the needed savings can be found in an audit of state government.

Governor Pat Quinn says he cut $3 billion from the budget, which was hard enough. He calls Brady's plan "nonsense." Quinn himself plans a 1 percentage point income tax increase to bring in $3 billion, which is also billions short of what's needed, and that's before Quinn commits some of that to his own tax cuts: He's promising property tax relief.

(Illinois Radio Network)
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