Better than Tom Roeser w/Bill Ayers:Berkowitz w/Dem.Gubernatorial candidate Ed Scanlan on not raising the income tax and much more;Cable and Streaming
Ed Scanlan [Democratic Primary candidate for Governor]: ... we ought to be trying to lure businesses into Illinois by giving them a tax Holiday…and then also trying to make our climate in Illinois one that businesses will want to come to. What they are doing is precisely the opposite. watch show with Ed Scanlan
Jeff Berkowitz: Who are they?
Ed Scanlan [D-Oak Park]: Governor Quinn and Comptroller Hynes. [They] are doing just the opposite.
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You can now watch the show with Ed Scanlan on your computer , as well as on Cable (See below).
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Jeff Berkowitz: …Ed Scanlan, you say, "Don’t raise [income] taxes at all, right?
Ed Scanlan [Democratic Primary candidate for Governor]: That’s correct.
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Ed Scanlan [D-Oak Park]: …Both of these gentlemen (Hynes and Quinn) are arguing about how best to tax the people of Illinois. Right now we are in the middle of a recession. There is an enormous deficit. Gov. Quinn’s proposal raises [individual and corporate income taxes by] 3.1 billion dollars…and the current estimates are anywhere from 110 to 120 billion dollars that we’re in the red. This doesn’t address the problem. This only makes it worse.
Jeff Berkowitz: What’s this? Raising taxes?
Ed Scanlan [D-Oak Park]: Raising taxes. What we need to do is to get businesses to locate in Illinois…Another thing you can do is normalize the State payroll. The Bureau of Labor Statistics says we are paying 12% more for comparable labor compared to the private sector…we’ve got to take a look at that. Current and former state employees are going to have to have a sacrifice. This is going to be a shared sacrifice to get this together…we ought to be trying to lure businesses into Illinois by giving them a tax Holiday…and then also trying to make our climate in Illinois one that businesses will want to come to. What they are doing is precisely the opposite.
Jeff Berkowitz: Who are they?
Ed Scanlan [D-Oak Park]: Gov. Quinn and Comptroller Hynes are doing just the opposite.
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Ed Scanlan: Jeff, there’s a distinction between standing up for labor, the men and women who work in labor and are members of the union and standing up for the union leadership. Both Gov. Quinn and Comptroller Hynes stand up for the union leadership—
Jeff Berkowitz: Is that why they get endorsements from the unions. It’s the union leadership that essentially is endorsing them?
Ed Scanlan [Democratic Primary candidate for Governor]: The way the Democratic Party, including both the State Comptroller and the Governor, have handled the issue is—they say to the unions when they are dealing with them: What do you need? I’ll give it to you. I’ll give you this deal but would you have your union support me, and then they send the bill to the taxpayers. That’s the way this State Democratic Party has been negotiating with unions. You need somebody to step up to the unions and deal with them in an arms length transaction, like the Sun-Times did…
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From Public Affairs w/Jeff Berkowitz, taped on Sunday, Nov. 1, 2009, and airing in the Chicago Metro Suburbs on "Public Affairs," this week. For the suburban airing schedule and more about this week's show with Democratic Primary Gubernatorial candidate Ed Scanlan, please go here.
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Jeff Berkowitz, Show Host/Producer of "Public Affairs," and Executive Legal Recruiter doing legal search can be reached at JBCG@aol.com. *************************************************************
More than 114 of our shows from the last two years are posted on the Public Affairs YouTube page .
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Jeff Berkowitz: Who are they?
Ed Scanlan [D-Oak Park]: Governor Quinn and Comptroller Hynes. [They] are doing just the opposite.
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You can now watch the show with Ed Scanlan on your computer , as well as on Cable (See below).
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Jeff Berkowitz: …Ed Scanlan, you say, "Don’t raise [income] taxes at all, right?
Ed Scanlan [Democratic Primary candidate for Governor]: That’s correct.
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Ed Scanlan [D-Oak Park]: …Both of these gentlemen (Hynes and Quinn) are arguing about how best to tax the people of Illinois. Right now we are in the middle of a recession. There is an enormous deficit. Gov. Quinn’s proposal raises [individual and corporate income taxes by] 3.1 billion dollars…and the current estimates are anywhere from 110 to 120 billion dollars that we’re in the red. This doesn’t address the problem. This only makes it worse.
Jeff Berkowitz: What’s this? Raising taxes?
Ed Scanlan [D-Oak Park]: Raising taxes. What we need to do is to get businesses to locate in Illinois…Another thing you can do is normalize the State payroll. The Bureau of Labor Statistics says we are paying 12% more for comparable labor compared to the private sector…we’ve got to take a look at that. Current and former state employees are going to have to have a sacrifice. This is going to be a shared sacrifice to get this together…we ought to be trying to lure businesses into Illinois by giving them a tax Holiday…and then also trying to make our climate in Illinois one that businesses will want to come to. What they are doing is precisely the opposite.
Jeff Berkowitz: Who are they?
Ed Scanlan [D-Oak Park]: Gov. Quinn and Comptroller Hynes are doing just the opposite.
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Ed Scanlan: Jeff, there’s a distinction between standing up for labor, the men and women who work in labor and are members of the union and standing up for the union leadership. Both Gov. Quinn and Comptroller Hynes stand up for the union leadership—
Jeff Berkowitz: Is that why they get endorsements from the unions. It’s the union leadership that essentially is endorsing them?
Ed Scanlan [Democratic Primary candidate for Governor]: The way the Democratic Party, including both the State Comptroller and the Governor, have handled the issue is—they say to the unions when they are dealing with them: What do you need? I’ll give it to you. I’ll give you this deal but would you have your union support me, and then they send the bill to the taxpayers. That’s the way this State Democratic Party has been negotiating with unions. You need somebody to step up to the unions and deal with them in an arms length transaction, like the Sun-Times did…
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From Public Affairs w/Jeff Berkowitz, taped on Sunday, Nov. 1, 2009, and airing in the Chicago Metro Suburbs on "Public Affairs," this week. For the suburban airing schedule and more about this week's show with Democratic Primary Gubernatorial candidate Ed Scanlan, please go here.
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Jeff Berkowitz, Show Host/Producer of "Public Affairs," and Executive Legal Recruiter doing legal search can be reached at JBCG@aol.com. *************************************************************
More than 114 of our shows from the last two years are posted on the Public Affairs YouTube page .
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