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HB750 Income Tax Hike Would Rob From Poor Taxpayers And Create More Rich, Multi-Million Dollar Government Employee Pensions 0

HB750 Income Tax Hike Would Rob From Poor Taxpayers And Create More Rich, Multi-Million Dollar Government Employee Pensions

CHICAGO-The proposed state income tax hike contained in HB750, currently in its second reading on the Illinois House floor, would be used mainly to fund lavish retirement pensions and benefits of public school teachers,...

No Need For Gross Receipts Tax, Corporate Tax Revenues Up 14.3% 0

No Need For Gross Receipts Tax, Corporate Tax Revenues Up 14.3%

CHICAGO-Governor Rod Blagojevich’s proposed new tax on gross receipts is floating on a raft of deceptions, half-truths and hidden future tax increases, charged Jim Tobin, president National Taxpayers United of Illinois (NTUI), Illinois’ largest...

ITEF Comment Vol. XIII Issue 3 0

ITEF Comment Vol. XIII Issue 3

Blago’s Proposed Trojan Horse Tax a Blueprint For Disaster I have been fighting taxes since 1976-thirty one years-and each time, when I think I have seen it all, the tax-raising politicians in Springfield come...

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ITEF exposes the Big ‘Revenue Crisis’; Lie

A little more than halfway into Fiscal Year 2007, the state has already raked in approximately a half-billion more in tax revenue than it had by this time last year. According to ITEF’s examination...

ITEF Comment Vol. XIII Issue 2 0

ITEF Comment Vol. XIII Issue 2

State Tax Revenue On The Rise For 5th Straight Year But Tax Hogs Want More A little more than halfway into Fiscal Year 2007, the state has already raked in approximately a half-billion more...

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The Naperville Sun ran a story that quoted our own Jim Tobin calling for a halt to the millionaire pensions our teachers and administrators are sucking out of taxpayers pockets. State Sen. Chris Lauzen...

District 201 Attempt To Hike Property Taxes By $15 Million Is Childish 0

District 201 Attempt To Hike Property Taxes By $15 Million Is Childish

CHICAGO-The president of Illinois’ largest taxpayer group today stated that officials from J. Sterling Morton High School District 201 are acting just like the children in their schools, if not worse. When a child...

ITEF Comment Vol. XIII Issue 1 0

ITEF Comment Vol. XIII Issue 1

Groups Pushing For Income Tax Increase Will Benefit At Taxpayers’ Expense The beat of the drum grows louder and louder calling for massive state income tax and sales tax increases. Almost every day a...

ITEF Dispells Myth: Illinois Is Not A Low Tax State 0

ITEF Dispells Myth: Illinois Is Not A Low Tax State

Crain’s Chicago Business published an Op-Ed by Jim Tobin based on ITEF Comment 12-7 that dispells the myth that Illinois is a “low-tax” state. Illinoisans pay more than the average share of taxes according...

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Crain’s Chicago Business published an Op-Ed by Jim Tobin based on ITEFComment 12-7 that seeks to dispell the myth that Illinois is a “low-tax” state. Illinoisans pay more than the average share of taxes...