Category: News Releases

Taxpayers United of America To Request Restraining Order Against Illinois Tollway Authority 1

Taxpayers United of America To Request Restraining Order Against Illinois Tollway Authority

Click here to view a PDF of the motion filed with the court. Click here to view a PDF of the Illinois Tollway Top 100 Salaries and Pensions. CHICAGO–Attorneys for Taxpayers United of America...

Complaint Filed to Kill Huge $12 Billion Illinois Tollway-Tax Increase 8

Complaint Filed to Kill Huge $12 Billion Illinois Tollway-Tax Increase

Click here to view this News Release as a PDF. CHICAGO—Jim Tobin, President of Taxpayers United of America (TUA), one of the largest taxpayer organizations in America, today filed a lawsuit against the Illinois...

Govt. School Employees and Retirees of Macon County Revel at Taxpayer Expense 0

Govt. School Employees and Retirees of Macon County Revel at Taxpayer Expense

Click here to view Macon County’s top government teacher pensions. Click here to view Macon County’s top university employee pensions. Click here to view Macon County’s top IMRF pensions. DECATUR–A new report by Taxpayers...

Government Employee Pensions More Generous 0

Government Employee Pensions More Generous

Click here to view this news release as a PDF. A recent article from Reuters (“The unsustainability of public pensions,” Sept. 2) states that government employees “have a strong argument that they have earned...

Gov't School Employees and Retirees of Iroquois County, IL Revel at Taxpayer Expense 0

Gov't School Employees and Retirees of Iroquois County, IL Revel at Taxpayer Expense

Click here to view Iroquois County’s top government teacher salaries. Click here to view Iroquois County’s top government teacher pensions. Click here to view the top IMRF pensions for Iroquois County. IROQUOIS COUNTY–A new...

TUA Releases Tax Survey of 96th Illinois General Assembly 0

TUA Releases Tax Survey of 96th Illinois General Assembly

Click here to view TUA’s tax survey of Illinois’ 96th General Assembly. CHICAGO — Taxpayers United of America (TUA), one of America’s largest taxpayer organizations, has released its 14th biennial Tax Survey of the...

Courts Grant Taxpayers United of America’s Motions in Three April 5th Referenda Irregularity Cases 2

Courts Grant Taxpayers United of America’s Motions in Three April 5th Referenda Irregularity Cases

On August 24, 2011 the Circuit Court of Cook County, by Judge LeRoy K. Martin, Jr., granted Anthony Peraica, former Cook County Commissioner and a concerned taxpayer in Riverside-Brookfield and Taxpayers United of America,...

Illinois Tollway Trolls Raking in Lavish Salaries and Pensions 0

Illinois Tollway Trolls Raking in Lavish Salaries and Pensions

Click here to view the Illinois Tollway Top 100 Salaries and Estimated Pensions. “Almost doubling cash tolls on the Illinois Tollway system cannot be justified under any circumstances,” testified Christina Tobin, Vice President of...

Lavish, Gold-Plated Pensions Making Millionaires of Kansas City & Jackson County Teachers and MO Government Employees 0

Lavish, Gold-Plated Pensions Making Millionaires of Kansas City & Jackson County Teachers and MO Government Employees

Click here to view Jackson County’s top government teacher salaries and estimated pensions. Click here to view MO’s top government pensions. KANSAS CITY–A report released today by Taxpayers United of America (TUA) reveals that...