Why the Pain of an Illinois Government Shutdown is Needed

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That old adage about crisis begetting opportunity loses its punch when you take the crisis out of the equation.

It was only last week that Gov. Bruce Rauner was both bracing for and embracing a looming Illinois government shutdown.

“Change is hard. Change was always going to be hard, but we need to have change. If all we do is keep the status quo, and if all we do is just raise taxes to cover up the status quo, we’ll continue in our long-term, slow decline,” Rauner told employees of the Illinois Emergency Management Agency in Springfield on the final day of FY 2015.

Rauner’s message, repeated in numerous headlines, was clear: The pain of a government shutdown is worth it if eventually it brings real change.

A week into a new budget year with no budget, however, the message seems to have shifted...

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