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10 Reasons to Repeal the 67 Percent Tax Hike

By Chris Andriesen
01/19/2011
Family budgets are on the line. The average Illinois household faces an increase of nearly $1,500 in its state income tax bill. A head cook and an office worker with two kids, earning a combined $80,000, will pay an additional $1,527 in state income taxes thanks to the tax hike – on top of the $2,160...

Mixed Messages: How Governor Quinn’s Tax Hikes Will Erase President Obama’s Tax Cuts

By Chris Andriesen
01/10/2011
The Problem Illinois families should be wary of plans to hike taxes at the state level that would all but wipe out the benefits of the bipartisan tax compromise between President Barack Obama and Congressional Republicans. In federal legislation that extended the Bush-era tax cuts, and also included a payroll tax cut, a four-member family...

What Governor Quinn’s Income Tax Hike Means to You

12/31/2010
by Collin Hitt Illinois lawmakers are considering raising the state income tax. Different plans have emerged, but each would damage Illinois’s economic recovery.  The plan that has been discussed the longest is one that would raise Illinois’s individual income tax from three to four percent, a 33 percent increase.  More recent tax plans have emerged that...
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FAQ: How the federal scholarship program would help Illinois students

Illinois students could soon benefit from scholarship money to help them find a tutor, attend ACT or SAT prep sessions, pay tuition, get special education services or assist with other academic needs. That will happen in Illinois only if Gov. J.B. Pritzker lets the state’s schoolchildren benefit from the Federal Scholarship Tax Credit program, established...

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Process for unionizing non-state workers raises red flags

By Paul Kersey
06/19/2014

CBS Chicago: Illinois’ highest-paid superintendent receives $400K per year to oversee 1,200 students

By Ted Dabrowski
05/02/2016