STATION EDITORIAL
Posted June 4, 2025
This is a station editorial, I’m Randal J. Miller, station president.
Well, both Washington and Springfield are again on the spending binge with less revenue to back it up.
In Washington, the House-passed “Big Beautiful Bill” that the U-S Senate is considering, while being sold as benefiting you and me, has been scored by the Congressional Budget Office to add another 2-point-4 TRILLION, that’s TRILLION with a “T”, to the already massive 36-point-2 TRILLION the U-S Government is in debt. While being sold as cutting taxes, ANYTHING that INCREASES the national debt, even in the name of reducing taxes, is a BAD thing.
And in Springfield, in the late hours of May 31st, the Illinois General Assembly passed a 55-point-2 billion dollar budget that increases taxes by some one billion dollars to help plug a 3-billion dollar shortfall. There are new taxes on businesses, nicotine, and sports betting.
In both cases, the bottom line is that government—both federal and state—still haven’t figured out how to live within their means. Every lobbying group that is at the trough for money, will again get what they want, in order for the politicians to get contributions from those same groups to get re-elected. It’s all about getting re-elected for our legislators, NOT about governing or doing the right thing.
There IS a day of reckoning for both the United States and the State of Illinois. You and I have never been allowed to spend more than we take in, without either filing bankruptcy or going to jail.
We’re paying for their decisions with higher inflation and taxes. Our kids and grandkids will pay for their decisions also with higher inflation, and in the case of the Federal Government, at some point, default, and that won’t be pretty.
Both our country and our state are going down a road that goes to nowhere, unless and until legislators on both sides of the aisle take fiscal responsibility seriously. And, the chances of that right now are low.
That’s our opinion, we welcome yours. Our e-mail address is editorial@randyradio.com.
