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Governor Rod R. Blagojevich text of the Governors Budget Address (2007, March 7)
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Text of the fiscal year 2008 budget address given by Governor Rod Blagojevich on March 7, 2007 to spell out his fiscal priorities for the coming year. The speech proposed a "Tax Fairness Plan" to replace the corporate income tax with a Gross Receipts Tax. The governor's plan would use the additional revenue to fund education, healthcare, the state pension system, and strengthen infrastructure with capital improvements.
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- Education: Educational finance: State aid to schools
- Government finance and taxes: Educational finance
- Government finance and taxes: Government revenues
- Government finance and taxes: Government revenues: Taxes: Business taxes
- Government finance and taxes: State finance
- Health and medicine: Health insurance and health care coverage
- Laws and regulations: Tax laws
- State government: State finance
- State government: State finance: State employee retirement system
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.1 OFFICE OF THE GOVERNOR OD R. BLAGOJEVICH GOVERNOR Governor Rod R. Blagojevich Text of the Governor's Budget Address March 7, 2007 This budget address is prescribed by our constitution; the proposals will offer today are prescribed by our collective conscience and by what believe, is moral imperative. Today, we will begin the biggest, most fundamental change, in our year effort, to put middle class and working families at the center of who we fight for. It is change that is long overdue and change that is desperately needed. For decades, it's been the middle class and the working families of Illinois that have shouldered more and more of the tax burden. And while they've paid more, the wealthiest corporations in our state have paid less and less. The impact of this imbalance weakens our economy, burdens our families and holds our state back. And the saddest irony of all, the very people burdened by an unfair tax system, middle class families and working families were hurt by the und
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Illinois
Office of the Governor
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Organization: Office of the Governor
207 State House
Springfield, IL 62706
Phone: 217-782-0244 or 312-814-2121
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