After they rammed it down our throats in January 2011, Gov. Pat Quinn and others promised most of the state’s 67 percent income tax increase would only last for a little while.

The increase in Illinois’ flat personal income tax rate from 3 percent to 5 percent was supposed to roll back, falling to 3.75 percent in 2015 and 3.25 percent in 2025. The corporate income tax rate, which increased from 4.8 percent to 7 percent, was to fall to 5.25 percent in 2015.

This increase, which takes about $1,000 more a year out of the pockets of working families, was supposed to be a stopgap, something to buy time while our leaders came up with more permanent solutions to our state’s pension crisis.