{"id":684386,"date":"2010-03-06T11:22:06","date_gmt":"2010-03-06T16:22:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/illinoiseducationassociation.org\/?p=6242"},"modified":"2010-03-06T11:22:06","modified_gmt":"2010-03-06T16:22:06","slug":"let%e2%80%99s-take-a-page-from-the-tribune","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/684386","title":{"rendered":"Let\u2019s take a page from the Tribune"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(The following <a href=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/cNhnar\">letter to the editor<\/a> appears in Saturday&#8217;s edition of the Chicago Tribune)<\/p>\n<p><strong>Necessary taxes<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Tribune editorial wisely stops short of claiming a tax increase is not needed in Illinois. When fairness, political realities and the desire to minimize human suffering are taken into account, a balanced approach that includes some cuts and a tax increase is clearly warranted. We can&#8217;t cut our way out of the $13 billion mess handed to us by past governors and the General Assembly. Illinois must raise taxes.<\/p>\n<p><em> <\/em><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_6003\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"width: 437px\"><em> <\/em><em><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-6003\" title=\"rally-at-rotunda\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/illinoiseducationassociation.org\/media\/rally-at-rotunda-427x580.jpg?resize=427%2C580\" alt=\"\" width=\"427\" height=\"580\" \/><\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Members rally at the Rotunda.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>The state can learn from the recent example of a prominent Illinois corporation. After making painful budget cuts, it decided, in order to continue to deliver a product of import and value to consumers, it needed to raise the price of its product.<\/p>\n<p>We understand why the Tribune increased the cost of its newspaper; sometimes you have to get more revenue.<\/p>\n<p>The state is in a similar situation. A tax increase is the appropriate response.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014<em>Ken Swanson, president, Illinois Education Association, Springfield<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(The following letter to the editor appears in Saturday&#8217;s edition of the Chicago Tribune) Necessary taxes The Tribune editorial wisely stops short of claiming a tax increase is not needed in Illinois. When fairness, political realities and the desire to minimize human suffering are taken into account, a balanced approach that includes some cuts and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2642,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4821],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-684386","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-2S2u","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/684386","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2642"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=684386"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/684386\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=684386"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=684386"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=684386"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}