WBBM Goes with Goose Liver

Go Figure.

I’m driving home from my Wednesday Crystal Lake Kiwanis meeting at Colonial Café (having mercifully missed my second speech by the governor that way) and the first story I hear features the bill McHenry County’s State Senator Pam Althoff has introduced with Chicago's Rep. Robert Molaro to ban foie gras in Illinois.

What trivial news to cover, especially on the day that our Democratic Party's governor is proposing increasing our tax burden by almost 11%. (If you want to read the details of Althoff's bill, here is the Farm Santuary press release on the bill.)

Later I heard a story about the huge tax increase, but, as with House Bill 750—the fake tax sway proposal—the WBBM reporter did not put Governor Rod Blagojevich’s tax hike proposal into context.

Increasing the tax burden in Illinois by $6 billion will result in almost an 11% hike in annual state revenues.

Some of this will be exported to taxpayers in other states and countries, but most will be paid by us Illinois taxpayers.

Posted first at McHenry County Blog.