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 About 20 people held a ‘mock-funeral’ outside the Department of Human Services in Peoria they say to represent the death of the agency. Members of the Service Employees International Union say millions of dollars in tax breaks to business could be used to fund health and home care services that are otherwise slated to be cut this year. Area resident Darla Brown is wheelchair bound and uses home-care services.
“They’re burying us, they’re burying our programs…so we might as well be dead,” Brown says.
“Where else do we have to go? When all these programs are cut out, where are we going to go? Who’s going to be there for us?”
The protests came as the Chicago Mercantile Exchange held its annual shareholder meeting this week. Those at the event also want to see the state replace its flat income tax with a so-called “fair tax” where high income earners pay higher taxes. |
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