Our dedicated public servants in the legislature have treated us to yet another series of tax increases and toll hikes in order to save public transit in the Chicago area from falling off the purported “fiscal cliff.” We in the Chicago area will be hit hard enough, but downstaters will once again be forced to content themselves with a few cleanly picked bones tossed in their direction by their overlords in the Northeast corner of the state.

The further extractions from our wallets and disincentives to locate or stay in Illinois are bad enough, but the insults to the intelligence of the taxpayers being used to justify such fiscal chicanery pour salt in our financial wounds. We are told that all the tax hikes and toll increases are necessary to avoid “service cutbacks” on the CTA and commut

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