Quinn says major cuts ahead if tax hike expires - Jim Dey, News-Gazette

Fresh from proposing that legislators make the state's temporary 5 percent income tax permanent, Gov. Pat Quinn warned Friday that public education in Illinois will suffer grievously if his recommendation is not followed. "There is no way the University of Illinois is not going to have major cutbacks if we do not get our budget," Quinn said during a telephone interview with The News-Gazette. He said that if the 5 percent tax is not made permanent and falls back to 3.75 percent on Jan. 1, there will be "severe cutbacks" across state government, including "cutting education in a very draconian way." http://www.news-gazette.com/news/local/2014-03-29/jim-dey-quinn-says-major-cuts-ahead-if-tax-hike-expires.html