Scott Hodge Quotes
In fact, for Illinois to have equaled New Mexico's sweet deal -- $2 back for every $1 it paid in federal taxes -- Washington would have to funnel 20 percent of all federally appropriated dollars to Illinois, an impossible amount. The only hope for rapid improvement in Illinois' ratio would be a fundamental tax reform that flattened federal income tax rates. 
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If local citizens want to pony up the money to right this wrong, they should put up the tax dollars. They should not come begging to Washington to do it.
- Scott Hodge
