10/31/2025
While most of us were sleeping last night, Illinois Democrats were busy passing legislation that bails out the city of Chicago.
The Chicago Transit Bailout Bill passed through the House around 2:00 and then the Senate around 4:00 in the morning. The bulk of the funding will come through redirecting sales tax revenue charged on motor fuel purchases...money that we were relying on to fix our roads and bridges.
Southern Illinois is going to lose hundreds of millions in road infrastructure money because of this broken promise. Chicago's failed leadership and mismanagement of funds are now our problem every time we go to the pump. We will be paying for an upgraded transit system that most of us will never use.
I would encourage you to watch some of the clips from session. You will find that many of these Representatives, who make $85K+ annually, have no idea what is in their own bills. In the debate on the transit bailout, the sponsors of the bill couldn't answer some of the simplest questions on where this money would be coming from.
With all of the broken promises and confusion that we see from lawmakers in Springfield, it's no wonder so many are leaving the state!
