Opinion

Democrats count on GOP to cave

Posted July 17, 2017 1:00 am

I was pretty surprised to wake up on Thursday morning after the July Fourth holiday to find out my state Rep,. David Harris was one of the Republicans that was going to vote for a massive tax increase. It woke me up enough to actually call a politician's office for the first time in my life.

I also didn't want this budget impasse to go on forever and was not against a compromise. The state is in a huge financial hole and I can understand that some tax increase was going to be necessary, but I certainly did not expect it to be this big of a tax increase.

One of the reasons the tax increase is so large is because there are no corresponding spending cuts, because suburban Republicans like Harris decided that compromise was unnecessary for the Democrats.

Why should the Democrats consider compromising on anything in the future when they know that when push comes to shove, some Republicans will cave?

Scott Schmidt

Arlington Heights

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