You know what they say: even a broken clock is right twice a day.
Yesterday, in a radio interview, Illinois Governor Bruce Rauner said what vulnerable House Republicans Reps. Peter Roskam, Randy Hultgren, Mike Bost, and Rodney Davis have been unable to admit: the GOP tax scam is going to hike taxes on middle class families and homeowners across Illinois.
Let’s go to the transcript:
HOST: Here in Illinois many people believe the middle class, especially in Illinois, are going to get hurt by this plan. Because of the fact that our local taxes and state taxes and the mortgage cap is going to hurt us. Do some of your plans address that? […]
RAUNER: […] The reality is cause Illinois is over taxed, and many of those taxes are no longer deductible over a 10,000 total tax burden level, that’s going to hurt a lot of middle class families and higher income families. It’s going to push more employers out of the state, that’s going to hurt job creation, and that’s going to increase the cost of living for the people of Illinois. So, it’s punishing in that regard.
But it’s not like Rauner broke news. Over the holidays Illinois families across the state were scrambling to prepay their property taxes to avoid getting slammed when the GOP tax bill goes into effect next year.
The GOP Tax Scam guts the deduction for State and Local Taxes, which nearly a third of Illinoisans take advantage of for an average deduction of over $12,000.
Bruce Rauner finally got something right: the GOP tax scam is going to hammer middle class families and homeowners in Illinois. The only thing he left out: this November, voters are going to take it out on Reps. Peter Roskam, Randy Hultgren, Mike Bost, and Rodney Davis.