Category: Items of Interest

200 ADDITIONAL IL STATE POLICE WILL COST TAXPAYERS $1.5 BILLION 0

200 ADDITIONAL IL STATE POLICE WILL COST TAXPAYERS $1.5 BILLION

View as PDF CHICAGO—Ill. Gov. Patrick Quinn’s proposal to add roughly 200 additional state police will cost Illinois taxpayers $1.5 billion, conservatively, over the troopers’ expected lifetime—a cost the bankrupt state and battered taxpayers can’t...

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Taxpayers Win Big in April 9 Election!

View Release as PDF Chicago – Taxpayers United of America (TUA) helped local activists defeat 4 more property tax increase referenda. This makes our Illinois property tax increase referenda victories 197! We were also...

Tax Fighter Chris Jenner Earns Endorsement from TA in McHenry County College Board Race 0

Tax Fighter Chris Jenner Earns Endorsement from TA in McHenry County College Board Race

View Release as PDF Chicago – Tax Accountability (TA), the political action arm of Taxpayers United of America (TUA) has endorsed Chris Jenner in his bid for McHenry County College Board. “Known as a tax-fighter...

Wilmette School District 39 Continues to Mislead Public, Cover Up Illegal Ballot Language 0

Wilmette School District 39 Continues to Mislead Public, Cover Up Illegal Ballot Language

View release as a PDF WILMETTE, IL – Despite a recent change to the property tax code that clarifies how property tax increases are calculated, Wilmette School District 39 is choosing to continue its...

Gold Found in Springfield, IL! 0

Gold Found in Springfield, IL!

View release as a PDF Springfield—Taxpayers United of America (TUA) today released the results of a new pension study for the Illinois General Assembly, Springfield municipal government employees, Sangamon County government teachers and the...

Tax Accountability Announces 2012 Endorsements 0

Tax Accountability Announces 2012 Endorsements

View release as a PDF Chicago—Today, Tax Accountability, the political action arm of Taxpayers United of America (TUA), announced its Illinois candidate endorsements for the November 6, 2012 general election. “This is an important...

Adams County Crushed by Government Pensions 2

Adams County Crushed by Government Pensions

View release as a PDF Quincy—Taxpayers United of America (TUA) today released the results of a new pension study for the Quincy municipal government employees, Adams County government employees and Adams County government teachers....

Westmont Bureaucrats Desperate to Protect Home Rule Taxing Power 2

Westmont Bureaucrats Desperate to Protect Home Rule Taxing Power

View release as a PDF Chicago – “Westmont residents stand to keep a lot more of their hard-earned money if they vote “YES” to end home rule on November 6,” stated Rae Ann McNeilly,...

Shhh! Maywood to Vote on Home Rule Nov. 6! 2

Shhh! Maywood to Vote on Home Rule Nov. 6!

View release as a PDF CHICAGO- “Maywood Village bureaucrats are hoping voters aren’t prepared for the Home Rule referendum that will appear on the November 6 ballot,” stated Rae Ann McNeilly, director of outreach...