By Mark Fitton
12/21/2015
Noting some hard numbers from November, Illinois manufacturers say they’re watching Springfield for decisions on taxes and spending as they keep battling in a worldwide marketplace. While Illinois gained a few jobs in November, they weren’t in manufacturing. Although the state added about 400 jobs in November, the unemployment rate rose 0.3 percentage points to...
TAGS: jobs, manufacturing, unemployment
By Heather Weiner
08/19/2015
The new law encourages state agencies to weed out rules and regulations that hurt Illinois' entrepreneurs.
TAGS: regulations, small business
By Jonathan Ingram
03/22/2012
Next week, the U.S. Supreme Court will hear oral arguments in the ObamaCare litigation. The case, Florida v. United States Department of Health and Human Services, pits the Obama administration against a bipartisan group of twenty-six states and the National Federation of Independent Businesses. Two other states, Oklahoma and Virginia, are part of separate lawsuits also aimed at undoing...
by Jonathan Ingram There’s good news for those of us who love liberty. Earlier this morning, the Supreme Court announced that it would hear the constitutional challenges to ObamaCare. These are the challenges brought by 26 states and the National Federation of Independent Business. The biggest question, of course, is whether the federal government can force everyone to purchase...
by Jonathan Ingram Illinois cannot afford Obamacare. The Medicaid expansion in Obamacare is expected to increase Illinois’s Medicaid spending to $10.2 billion by 2030. This represents a 77 percent increase over 2008 spending. Illinois already faces a spending crisis, particularly within Medicaid, and the Comptroller reports even longer delays for payments to doctors and hospitals treating Medicaid patients are...
Obama's recently released budget proposal includes a retooled version of the infamous 1099 tax reporting requirement in ObamaCare.
Judge Vinson also found that the individual mandate is not severable from the federal health care legislation and declared the entire act void.
Earlier today in Florida, U.S. District Judge Roger Vinson ruled that the ObamaCare's individual mandate is unconstitutional and not severable from the legislation.
by Ashley Muchow The economy has proved to be the most important topic in politics today. Rightfully so. Come the end of last month, U.S. unemployment stood at 9.6%. Economic activity left much to be desired as GDP rose 1.6% in the second quarter of 2010, compared to a 3.6% increase in the first. Naturally, Washington feels obliged...
by Joseph O’Malley Do you remember when President Obama pledged that he wouldn’t raise taxes on anyone making less than $250,000 a year? Or his argument with George Stephanopoulos in which he claimed the individual mandate isn’t a tax? Now the Obama Administration is arguing that the individual mandate is a tax! What is the reason for this sudden flip...