Opinion

Stop funding for Peotone airport

Posted April 08, 2009 11:00 pm

A recent edition of the Daily Herald was both infuriating and amusing.

Our new governor is proposing increases in state income taxes and other taxes politicians like to call "fees." In one article, the governor is quoted daring anti-tax lawmakers to come up with cuts needed to balance the budget.

The very next page of the paper contained an article about the Peotone airport proposal and Gov. Quinn's support of it: $100 million has been allocated to buy more land for this $26 billion project.

Chicago does not need this airport. All of the major airlines have already stated that they will not use this new airport. For a perfect example of money wasted on an airport, see MidAmerica airport in downstate Belleville. The only people who seem to be in favor of this project are politicians. Sure seems to have all the earmarks of typical Illinois politics and backroom deals.

Let me be the first to offer our governor a suggestion on what to cut back. Do not spend another cent on the Peotone airport project. The taxpayers of Illinois do not need another huge black hole sucking our money away.

Steve Antonacci

Hampshire

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