Pritzker and Teacher’s Union Gift Exchange
This session was a win for teachers’ unions, but not so much for taxpayers and homeowners who will pay more, nor for students who without reforms will likely continue to see educational quality decline.
Read Full ArticleAnother Session, Same High Property Taxes
Instead of passing reforms, the Democrats went another session punting on pension reform and instead forced through 21 tax and fee hikes that you will pay. Also, with the passage of the graduated income tax amendment supported by every Democrat who voted and Gov. Pritzker, legislators want to give themselves the constitutional power to increase tax rates however much they deem necessary.
Read Full ArticlePritzker’s Continued Assault On The Middle Class
For a state that already burdens its residents with the highest state and local tax burden, the $7 billion in new taxes introduced this session shows just how out of touch the ruling class in Springfield has become and illustrates their incompetence at managing money.
Read Full ArticleWho’s Fighting For Your Home?
No matter your color, age, ethnicity, socioeconomic status, or political party, we are all losing to this confiscatory property tax system. Once vibrant communities are vacant, and families are separated. High property taxes are unfair and immoral.
Read Full ArticleNew Legislators: End Conflicts Of Interest
The current pension system in place breeds career politicians beholden to a fixed system that enriches them but continues to squeeze taxpayers. Real pension reform is needed to bring relief to families across the state that have been nickel and dimed by the political ruling class at no benefit to the average taxpayer.
Read Full ArticleCoalition Of Reformers Refuse Taxpayer Funded Pensions If Elected
We deserve independent legislators who will work to save our homes, not just sit by and collect a paycheck as families are being uprooted and seeing their most important investment destroyed.
Read Full ArticleTaxpayers are on the hook for Tim Mapes’ six-figure pension
Not only are we supposed to accept the fact that our state government is overrun with sexual predators—we are also expected to fund their lavish retirement benefits.
Read Full ArticleTone-Deaf Proposal: Increase Illinois Property Taxes To Pay Pension Debt
Economists from the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago suggested an annual 1 percent statewide property tax, on top of the property tax bills owners already pay. Under their plan, you’d be forced to pay thousands of dollars in additional property taxes to try and fill the state’s $130 billion pension shortfall over the next 30 years.
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