Protecting Our Most Vulnerable
For all of their rhetoric claiming to protect those most in need, neither liberal tax and spend policies nor big government healthcare policies have protected families from having to face the indignity of pleading for their child’s life in front of a roomful of the legislators who have been using them as political cannon-fodder for decades.
Read Full ArticleRevenue and Redefinition
The language we use in our collective discourse plays an enormous role in shaping the public’s perceptions and understanding of critical issues, including taxation. Unfortunately, those of us on the right have been unwilling to fully understand that their attempts at redefinition amount to psychological warfare.
Read Full ArticleIllinois’ Inconvenient Truth
It would be great if we lived in a world where the State of Illinois’ Medicaid system was not so mismanaged that a convicted terrorist could be hired as an Obamacare navigator.
Read Full ArticleIllinois’ Pro-Business Win
It’s election season and sometimes – sometimes – this works out for the businesses and taxpayers who are usually under attack by Illinois’ ruling class.
Read Full ArticleA Ruling for the Ruling Class
The Illinois Supreme Court recently ruled that the state constitution prevents any diminishment of health care benefits for retired state employees. The ruling is ominous for the future of practical pension reform and the quality of life for all Illinoisans.
Read Full ArticleMoney Walks, Opportunity Talks
Illinoisans are racing across the border into Indiana at an unprecedented rate. According to IRS data, Indiana gained 105,000 people and $2.2 billion in annual income from Illinois alone from 1995-2010.
Read Full ArticleThe Defining Question for the ILGOP in ’14: Why Do You Do What You Do?
If you don’t explain why you want to do something, people will not be energized, or even interested, in how you want to do it.
Read Full ArticleThe Death of Work and Education in Illinois
The Illinois model of governance is doing a real number on education and job creation. Well, two numbers actually: 50 and 66. 50th is the place Moody’s projects Illinois will finish nationally in job creation in the Year of Our Lord (House Speaker Mike Madigan) 2014.
Read Full ArticleILGOP Legislative Leaders in the Super-Minority and Loving It (Apparently)
If you want to understand why Illinois Republicans are in the super-minority, all you have to do is watch the behavior of the mislabeled House and Senate Republican legislative “leaders” on what has been purposely mislabeled, “pension reform.”
Read Full ArticleFreshman Legislators Make It Personal on Pension Reform
At the very moment when Illinois is facing a pension crisis, we are pleased to see that some Illinois legislators are leading by example—and out of their own pockets.
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