Gov. Pat Quinn's veto of a makeshift budget marks another round of uncertainty and frustration for Illinois taxpayers. The move leaves state workers who might not get a paycheck and poor families wondering if they'll lose daycare and health services. For the third straight time, Illinois government has entered a new budget year without a new budget in place. State officials are amid the worst fiscal crisis in Illinois history. Things have gotten so twisted in Springfield that Quinn wound up opposing his own borrowing plan and legislative leaders are likely to fight to revive a budget they didn't want in the first place. For now, government will operate more or less normally. But Quinn noted without a budget, any group depending on state money can keep delivering services as usual but they "do so at the risk of not being paid."
