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 Members of the Illinois House of
Representatives passed into law the largest permanent income tax hike in state
history July 6, successfully overriding Gov. Bruce Rauner’s July 4 veto of a
larger budget package.
The override vote with respect to Senate Bill 9, the revenue portion of the
budget that includes a tax hike, passed on a 71-42 vote. Ten House Republicans
voted yes.
The override passed the Senate July 4 on a 36-19 vote, with one Republican
voting yes, state Sen. Dale Righter from Mattoon. Righter also voted in favor of
the tax hikes in order to send the bill to the governor in the first place.
The budget package will now become law despite Rauner’s veto.
 The personal income tax rate will increase to 4.95 percent from 3.75 percent and
the corporate income tax rate will rise to 7 percent from 5.25 percent,
retroactive to July 1.
Moody’s Investors Service has indicated that even with the budget deal, Illinois
is likely to become the nation’s first junk-rated state.
Despite a 32 percent income tax hike, the budget package is devoid of any
structural spending reforms to slow growth in the cost of government: It lacks
comprehensive property tax reform, major pension reform, collective bargaining
reform, reforms to Medicaid and more.
Illinoisans may recall the 2011 temporary income tax hike, which also took a
tax-hike-without-reform approach. Despite $32 billion in extra tax revenue, the
state’s unpaid bill backlog only declined by $1.3 billion (to $6.6 billion from
$7.9 billion), and pension debt rose by $25 billion.
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A statewide poll conducted in May by
Fabrizio, Lee & Associates and commissioned by Illinois Policy
revealed nearly two-thirds of Illinoisans surveyed opposed a budget
that included a state income tax hike.
Below is the House roll call for
Senate Bill 9, which contains the permanent income tax hike.
Democrats voting yes (61): Ammons, Andrade, Arroyo, Beiser, D.
Burke, K. Burke, Cassidy, Chapa LaVia, Conroy, Conyears-Ervin,
Crespo, Currie, D’Amico, Davis, DeLuca, Drury, Evans, Feigenholtz,
Fine, Flowers, Ford, Gabel, Gordon-Booth, Greenwood, Guzzardi,
Halpin, Harper, G. Harris, Hernandez, Hoffman, Hurley, Jones,
Kifowit, Lang, Lilly, Madigan, Mah, Manley, Martwick, Mayfield, C.
Mitchell, Moeller, Nekritz, Phelps, Riley, Rita, Scherer, Sente,
Sims, Slaughter, Soto, Stratton, Tabares, Thapedi, Turner, Wallace,
Walsh, Welch, Williams, Willis, Zalewski.
Republicans voting yes (10): Andersson, Bryant, Fortner, Hammond, D.
Harris, Hays, Jimenez, B. Mitchell, Phillips, Unes.
Democrats voting no (6): Connor, Costello, Moylan, Mussman, Stuart,
Yingling.
Republicans voting no (36): Batinick, Bellock, Bennett, Bourne,
Brady, Breen, Butler, Cabello, Cavaletto, Davidsmeyer, Demmer,
Durkin, Frese, Halbrook, Jesiel, Long, McAuliffe, McCombie,
McDermed, McSweeney, Meier, Morrison, Olsen, Parkhurst, Reick, Reis,
Severin, Skillicorn, Sommer, Sosnowski, Spain, Stewart, Swanson,
Welter, B. Wheeler, K. Wheeler.
Republicans not voting (5): Ives, Pritchard, Sauer, Wehrli, Winger.
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