Recall Governor Pat Quinn

America, it has come to my attention there is an effort underway to recall the governor of my home state of Illinois. Here at Fix America, I the angry American support this effort. In a time of great financial strain on the American working class, the state of Illinois has decided to raise taxes. They raised the income tax to 5% of your earnings. A 2% increase doesn't seem like alot but lets break it down to an easy to understand number. For every hundred dollars you earn in Illinois, the state is going to take five. That's five dollars for every hundred on top of your social security withholding, your medicare and medicade withholding, and your federal income tax. That means for every hundred dollars made, you will take home if your lucky seventy dollars. Think about that, for every hundred dollars you make, the government is going into your wallet and grabbing thirty bucks before you even get home and start to pay the rent and the car payment and the credit card bills and if there's anything left buy some groceries. The government is the very reason the foreclosure rate is through the roof and children are hungry and living on the streets.

We pay our government so much money we can't afford to pay for our own lives. If the government would turn around and ease the tax burden on employers so they could afford to give the poor working stiffs in this country a raise so the tax hike didn't sting so bad, then maybe people would be ok with paying a little bit more. That would be nice wouldn't it? But what did good old Pat Quinn do? He decided the 2% tax hike wasn't enough, so while promising to help create jobs in Illinois, he kept his fingers crossed behind the podium and jacked up the corporate taxes too.

How in the hell are you going to create jobs in a state when you make it financial suicide to operate in the state. You tell me what business owner in their right minds is going to open shop in Illinois when the taxes in Indiana, Iowa, and Wisconsin just to name a few are a lot lower. Those states know to create jobs you need to give business an incentive to open it's doors in your state.

Quinn's excuse? The state has a budget deficit that we need to fix. Ok fine, the state is broke. I bet you would have a better shot at closing the budget gap if you LOWER taxes. Remember that incentive thing? If you bring jobs to Illinois because of lower taxes, there would be more people working, more people paying their taxes, and you would be spending LESS on unemployment benefits and social welfare programs. Wow what a simple solution!!

Right now Pat Quinn reminds me of Prince John and Speaker Madigan is his Sheriff of Notingham. The way things are going, it won't be long until you see state troopers holding kids upside down and shaking them for their lunch money after all, the only thing that matters to them is wringing as much money out of people as possible. The residents of Illinois may be starving, but hey our budget is balanced so re-elect me!

GO TO HELL GOVERNOR QUINN!