4 lessons Illinois should learn from Connecticut’s ‘fair tax’ failure

By Vincent Caruso

03/11/2019

Only one state has switched its income tax structure from flat to progressive in the past 30 years. Its disastrous results may explain why.

TAGS: Connecticut, fair tax, income inequality, income tax, JB Pritzker, poverty, progressive income tax, taxes

Progressively worse: Pritzker’s tax push has a dangerous precedent

By Austin Berg

03/07/2019

The last state to take Pritzker’s path should serve as a bright red flag to Illinoisans weighing whether to back him.

TAGS: Connecticut, fair tax, income tax, JB Pritzker, jobs, poverty, progressive income tax, taxes, unemployment

Progressive income taxes don’t reduce income inequality

By Orphe Divounguy, Bryce Hill

03/05/2019

Despite Illinois’ governor’s claims, states with progressive income taxes face greater gaps between rich and poor.

TAGS: income inequality, income tax, JB Pritzker, poverty, progressive income tax, taxes

Front lines of a broken state

By Austin Berg

10/30/2015

What happens to a family that can’t afford to leave Illinois?

TAGS: jobs, poverty, unemployment

Illinois’ warped welfare system traps families in poverty

By Austin Berg

06/20/2015

A new report from the Illinois Policy Institute details an insidious poverty trap created by the “welfare cliff.”

TAGS: poverty, welfare