With Republican Gov. Bruce Rauner and Democratic Party leader Mike Madigan engaged in an apparent blood feud in Springfield, a few state senators are discussing a grand compromise that could be a game-changer for school funding in Illinois.
Instead of a property tax freeze, a cornerstone of the governor's "turnaround agenda," Democratic senators are talking about a "tax swap" that could actually reduce property tax bills while increasing the state income tax to provide a fairer system for financing public education in Illinois.
The tax swap concept was first proposed by Democratic gubernatorial candidate Dawn Clark Netsch in 1994 and was ridiculed by her...