Questioning the ballot

In this months election for governor, and other elected officials there was a question that addressed a tax increase on the wealthy. The question was relatively simple, should there be a 3% increase in taxes on millionaires? However, it really did not say anything else on how it would effect people, it just said raise the money and all will be good. The simple answer would be obvious to anyone, to raise the taxes on the rich for educational purposes, and to fund more school projects. This does seem like a great cause, and for anyone answering it they would probably say yes.

According to Progress Illinois, "The results of these public policy questions, which many political observers say were more about boosting voter turnout among Democrats than gauging voter support for the ideas, are legislatively non-binding." 


This article talked about how having these questions on the ballot were to increase voter turn out for the democrats. That is a valid point considering that all the questions that were added that were like that were all liberal questions. Some of the other questions that were put were increasing minimum wage, and employers having to pay for birth control. I don't see this as a very bad thing that these questions were on the ballot, but they were one sided questions they all had to do with a liberal agenda. There should have been some questions on promoting some conservative views, like cutting spending on some state programs to reduce the debt.