If ‘fair tax’ passes, expect more seniors to leave Illinois looking to avoid retirement tax

By Adam Schuster, Bryce Hill

10/09/2020

Illinois would have lost an additional 10,577 seniors from 2012 to 2018 if outmigration were as severe as in Connecticut, the last state to enact a progressive income tax.

TAGS: fair tax, JB Pritzker, retirement tax

Progressive income tax would create 50.3% income tax rate for small businesses

By Bryce Hill

10/08/2020

Combined state and federal income taxes would have small businesses pay more than 50% of their top-end income in taxes.

TAGS: fair tax, JB Pritzker, small business

Pritzker revenue director sponsored bill to tax retirement income

10/07/2020

Taxing retirement income is not a new idea to Illinois politicians, but denying they want to tax seniors is new since that part of the “fair tax” plan slipped out.

TAGS: fair tax, JB Pritzker, retirement tax

Illinois becomes only state to ban haunted houses

10/03/2020

Other states warned residents about small spaces inside haunted houses creating a risk for spreading COVID-19, but Illinois is all alone in outlawing them.

TAGS: executive order, haunted house, JB Pritzker

Michigan Supreme Court rules against emergency powers similar to Pritzker’s

By Joe Tabor

10/02/2020

The Michigan Supreme Court concluded that Gov. Gretchen Whitmer could not legally extend her emergency executive orders without the approval of the legislature, while declaring another source of her authority unconstitutional altogether.

TAGS: coronavirus, COVID-19, executive order, Gretchen Whitmer, JB Pritzker

Inflation ensures progressive tax hike will hit an increasing number of Illinoisans

By Joe Tabor

10/02/2020

Within 20 years the portion of Illinoisans hit with the progressive tax hike would grow by over 150% if the rate of inflation mirrored the past two decades.

TAGS: JB Pritzker, middle class, progressive income tax

Pritzker’s ‘fair tax’ makes city income taxes more likely

By Amy Korte

10/02/2020

If the Illinois Constitution is amended to allow different income tax rates, expect cities to try to impose their own income taxes.

TAGS: fair tax, JB Pritzker, progressive income tax

Exemptions and deductions give low-income Illinoisans less than half tax rate of ‘rich’

By Bryce Hill

10/01/2020

Illinois’ tax code already protects the poor and middle class from paying as high a rate as billionaires, meaning the ‘fair tax’ is really about lawmaker taxing power.

TAGS: election, fair tax, flat tax, JB Pritzker

Pritzker’s ‘fair tax’ is really an ‘anything goes tax,’ with no taxpayer protections

By Joe Tabor

09/29/2020

Lawmakers scrapped any requirement that the progressive income tax be ‘fair,’ giving Springfield a blank check when it comes to taxing income.

TAGS: fair tax, JB Pritzker, progressive tax

Pritzker progressive tax campaign wastes over $200K on ads in California, Texas

09/28/2020

Pushing a $3.7 billion tax hike to people who can’t vote in Illinois is an unusual way to spend some of Pritzker’s $56.5 million donation.

TAGS: fair tax, JB Pritzker, waste

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If ‘fair tax’ passes, expect more seniors to leave Illinois looking to avoid retirement tax

Progressive income tax would create 50.3% income tax rate for small businesses

Pritzker revenue director sponsored bill to tax retirement income

Illinois becomes only state to ban haunted houses

Michigan Supreme Court rules against emergency powers similar to Pritzker’s

Inflation ensures progressive tax hike will hit an increasing number of Illinoisans

Pritzker’s ‘fair tax’ makes city income taxes more likely

Exemptions and deductions give low-income Illinoisans less than half tax rate of ‘rich’

Pritzker’s ‘fair tax’ is really an ‘anything goes tax,’ with no taxpayer protections

Pritzker progressive tax campaign wastes over $200K on ads in California, Texas

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