By Dave Dahl

SPRINGFIELD – Regardless of your feelings on the “stay home” order, an Illinois business group says the order and higher taxes make a bad combination. 

“It’s heartbreaking to watch what’s been happening to businesses and workers, and it’s terrible what our state is going through; yet, our governor still thinks it’s a good idea to raise taxes on businesses at a time when small businesses are being decimated by these closures. Many of them were looking forward potentially to a May reopening.

Carl says that makes his group’s fight against a graduated income tax even more necessary. A proposed constitutional amendment asks voters if they want to change the requirement that Illinois’ income tax be a flat tax. Gov. JB Pritzker has said the taxes would only go up for the top three percent of earners.

The group wants lawmakers, when they return to Springfield, to take the question off the November ballot.

Dave Dahl can be reached at [email protected].