Let's cut to the chase about the gas-tax hike pushed this week by Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel: * The reasons are solid. Ergo, the proposal makes sense. * This is Illinois. Ergo, it does not. Under the plan, you'd pay upwards of 30 more cents per gallon of gasoline. The screaming you just heard? That's from your wallet. It dreads an encroaching horror from Springfield. It stinks that we've come to this point. Am I the only one who is jaded? Amid Illinois' fiscal chaos, it's hard not to think that any new gas-tax revenue would get squandered or swiped somewhere, somehow by someone...
