Despite Illinois’ precarious financial situation, some lawmakers are continuing their efforts to establish an expensive state-based ObamaCare exchange.
Illinois has the highest income taxes on the poor of almost any state in the country, but the solution is not simply to raise taxes on the wealthy, as some constantly push for in Illinois.
If a school facilities sales tax referendum was passed in DeKalb County, the 0.25 percent sales-tax rate could rise to 1.25 percent, a 400 percent increase.
In a strange turn of events, the Illinois Supreme Court on Nov. 20 dismissed a challenge to Chicago’s red-light camera program.
Over the last 15 years, Illinois has lost a net of 282,827 people and more than $14 billion in annual income to zero-income-tax states.
Illinois is now down 138,200 total payroll jobs in the recession era, the second-worst recovery of any state.
While school districts can place sales-tax referendums on the ballot every election, once sales-tax hikes are enacted, voters can never initiate a referendum to repeal them.
Ridesharing regulations, ObamaCare exchange and extension of the 2011 tax hikes all lay dormant.