ILLINOIS ( 25News Now ) - Both Central Illinois Democratic and Republican leaders are against a statewide tax on Illinoisans.

The state would tax all Illinoisans a $1.50 delivery charge to help with the Chicago Transit Bill. Those delivery taxes would help save Chicago’s public transit, which is headed towards a $750 million fiscal disaster in January.

The last vote on the delivery tax was in May, and it proposed taxing all non-medical and grocery deliveries. It did not pass the House then and is unlikely to succeed now.

“For us, especially in central Illinois, maybe even some of the more rural areas of the state, a lot of people really do rely on deliveries to be able to be connected to the world, so to pay a tax on those deliveries to me, to fund transit up in the Chicagoland area,

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