The Republican candidate for Lt. Governor wants to allow Illinois' temporary income tax increase to sunset.
Evelyn Sanguinetti is Bruce Rauner’s running mate. She stopped in Colchester on Thursday.
Sanguinetti said Governor Pat Quinn’s plan to extend the higher income tax rate will not benefit the state’s economy.
She also said doing so is unfair to Illinoisans because the higher income tax increase was presented as a temporary way to help the state catch up on the bills backlog.
“We have to grow our way out of our problems instead of taxing our ways out of our problems,” Sanguinetti said.
Sanguinetti said her and Rauner will help grow Illinois by making the state more business friendly.
“We need a complete overhaul of our tax code,” Sanguinetti said. “We also need to look at how we are over burdening businesses by licensing requirements and certain requirements that create a burden for them whereas they just go a few miles out next door and these burdens don’t exist for them. Once businesses are here and they grow here we will have a thriving booming economy.”
Sanguinetti said if elected, Rauner will allow the higher tax rate to sunset.
