#Bruce Rauner

Author: Issie Lapowsky / Source: WIRED The last two years have been a rollercoaster ride for Matt Oczkowski. On the night of the 2016 presidential election, he sat inside then-candidate Donald Trump’s San Antonio campaign headquarters, where he led a team of anxious data scientists crunching

Authored by Mike Shedlock via TheMaven.net/MishTalk, The Illinois legislature is in recess right now. Other than disbanding the body, that's the best place for them. When they return, they are going after your pocketbook in the form a gas tax hike. Not to be outdone, Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel

Back in July, the state of Illinois narrowly avoided a junk bond rating with a last minute budget deal that included a 32% in hike in income taxes.  Republican Governor Bruce Rauner vetoed the budget and called it a "disaster," but both houses of the state legislature voted to override his veto. 

Just two days ago we wrote about how, despite a budget deal signed back in July that called for a massive tax hike, Illinois' unpaid payables balance had ballooned to a new all-time record high of $16,046,145,423.20 according the comptroller's office (see: Illinois Unpaid Vendor Backlog Hits A New

Back in July, the state of Illinois narrowly avoided a junk bond rating with a last minute budget deal that included a 32% in hike in income taxes.  Republican Governor Bruce Rauner vetoed the budget and called it a "disaster," but both houses of the state legislature voted to override his veto.