(07-29-2018 09:10 AM)Max Power Wrote:  This is because voters greedily decided this was okay to, years after benefitting from low tuition and high public funding by previous generations, slash funding for the next generation so they could enjoy lower taxes for themselves. Which is sad, because public education is the best way to upward economic mobility. Instead, we're saddling kids with a mortgage worth of debt, which results in delaying home buying, delaying starting a family. All so older people can have lower taxes and take longer vacations.

It's too easy for politicians looking for cuts to target public ed, and students don't vote, don't donate to their campaigns, so why not?

Don't be foolish.

Illinois' income tax rate from 1991 - 2010 was 3%. From 2011 - 2014, it was 5%. From 2015 - June 30, 2017, it was 3.75%. From July 1, 2017 to present is is 4.95%.

http://www.revenue.state.il.us/TaxRates/...rYears.htm

The rate was flat for nearly twenty years and then increased dramatically for three. During that time, funding was cut, as you note above. So, the funds were shifted elsewhere.

The problem in Illinois isn't a revenue issue -- it is a spending problem. King Madigan has ridden the state all the way down.