When lawmakers passed the record 2011 tax hike they went on record making promises to taxpayers about the purpose and temporary nature of the tax hike. Now it’s clear that those promises were actually lies. When passing the tax hike, Gov. Pat Quinn said: “We have some temporary tax increases that are designed to pay our...

The average unemployment rate for states without an income tax is 6.6 percent. Illinois has the nation’s second-highest unemployment rate – ringing in at 9.5 percent, or nearly three full percentage points higher than states that don’t tax income.

A growing percentage of taxpayers owe nothing in income taxes after accounting for credits and deductions.