- Seth Perlman/AP
- Bruce Rauner waved goodbye to cronyism—or did he?
This huge deficit is the result of years of bad decisions, sleight-of-hand budgeting, and giveaways we couldn’t afford. It is not the result of decreasing tax rates.
This is cheeky of the governor, as a few days ago he announced he favors right-to-work zones in Illinois—that is, areas where state employees wouldn’t have to pay union dues if they didn’t want to, even though they were benefiting from union representation.
“There’s no distinction in my day between my work and my play. I’ll get to know a CEO on a very personal level. We’ll play golf, go out to dinner, have a cigar, go hunting, fishing. . . . We become friends, which is part of the fun of the business. . . . I find that the personal bonding that comes from fun leads to proprietary deal flow . . . ”
