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Government School Employees and Retirees of Wilmette SD 39 Revel at Taxpayer Expense 0

Government School Employees and Retirees of Wilmette SD 39 Revel at Taxpayer Expense

WILMETTE–A new report by Taxpayers United of America (TUA) reveals that many government school employees and retirees of Wilmette School District 39 receive lavish, gold-plated salaries and pensions that far exceed average annual wages...

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Illinois “Education Reforms” a Sham

Click here to view this ITEF Comment as a PDF. “The so-called ‘education reforms’ passed by the Democrat-controlled Illinois General Assembly and signed into law by Gov. Patrick Quinn (D) are a sham and...

Surprise! Two State Income Tax Raisers Get Cushy Cook County Jobs! 0

Surprise! Two State Income Tax Raisers Get Cushy Cook County Jobs!

Click here to view this News Advisory as a PDF. Two lucky persons from Oak Lawn who were appointed to fill terms in the Illinois General Assembly, who voted for Gov. Patrick Quinn’s humungous...

Stop Top Two From Spreading to Illinois 0

Stop Top Two From Spreading to Illinois

Christina Tobin, Vice President of Taxpayers United of America (TUA) and Founder of the Free and Equal Elections Foundation, led the opposition in California last year against Prop 14 by helping in the foundation...

Wilmette School Board 39 Violated the Law 0

Wilmette School Board 39 Violated the Law

Taxpayers United of America (“TUA”) and Wilmette resident Herbert Sorock filed papers with the Circuit Court of Cook County June 7, 2011 claiming Wilmette School District 39 violated the U.S. Constitution, the Illinois Constitution,...

Government School Employees and Retirees of New Trier High School Revel at Taxpayer Expense 0

Government School Employees and Retirees of New Trier High School Revel at Taxpayer Expense

WINNETKA–A new report by Taxpayers United of America (TUA) reveals that many government school employees and retirees of New Trier High School receive lavish, gold-plated salaries and pensions that far exceed average annual wages...

Taxpayer and Public Policy Groups Urge Halt to Failed “War on Drugs” 1

Taxpayer and Public Policy Groups Urge Halt to Failed “War on Drugs”

The heads of two leading organizations promoting alternatives to the drug war today called upon the U.S. Congress to defund and halt the failed 40-year-old “War on Drugs.” A major taxpayer organization was praised...

Wilmette School Board Objects to Saving Taxpayers’ Money 0

Wilmette School Board Objects to Saving Taxpayers’ Money

CHICAGO–Yesterday, the Wilmette School District 39 Board successfully objected to a move by Taxpayers United of America (TUA) which would have saved the taxpayers thousands of dollars. TUA had moved to consolidate two of...

Misguided “War on Drugs” Has Cost Taxpayers $1 Trillion 1

Misguided “War on Drugs” Has Cost Taxpayers $1 Trillion

After 40 years, the United States’ war on drugs has cost $1 trillion and hundreds of thousands of lives. Drug use is rampant and violence even more brutal and widespread, according to a Fox...

Berwyn Retired Government Employees Revel at Taxpayer Expense 0

Berwyn Retired Government Employees Revel at Taxpayer Expense

BERWYN–A new report by Taxpayers United of America (TUA) reveals that many Berwyn retired government employees receive lavish, gold-plated pensions that far exceed average annual wages of workers in the private sector. “These outrageous...