St. Sen. Meeks’ Urged To Rescind His “Skip School And Hop Bus” Proposal
Alex Voorman, Policy Analyst of National Taxpayers United of Illinois (NTUI), today urged St. Sen. James T. Meeks (D-15, Calumet City) to rescind his call for Chicago Public School students to skip the first day of school on September 2nd and be bussed over to New Trier High School in Winnetka to register for classes. [...]
Use Gasoline Sales Taxes For Road Repairs, Not Fat Pensions
UPDATE: It appears that the Governor has taken our advice. His new proposal for the capital spending bill would include diverting state sales taxes on gasoline into the spending program CHICAGO— The president of Illinois’ largest taxpayer group urged lawmakers to use tax money collected from gasoline sales taxes for road repairs, not to pad [...]
NTUI at Tony Peraica Tax Protest
On July 1st Alex Voorman attended Tony Peraica’s tax protest at the Tompson Center in Chicago. The protest was designed to gain support for a repeal of the recently enacted 1% Cook County Sales Tax increase.
ITEF Comment Vol. XIV Issue 7
TOTAL STATE REVENUES UP FOR SIXTH YEAR IN A ROW CHICAGO- For the sixth year in a row, since ITEF began tracking state revenue, total Illinois state revenue is significantly up from the previous year, according to data from the Illinois Comptroller’s website. Total tax revenue for FY 2008 has increased $2.3 billion over FY [...]
NTUI on CBS 2 TV Chicago
NTUI’s Alex Voorman was interviewed by CBS 2 Chicago regarding the $500 million Cook County sales tax increase. The video can be seen here.
Cook County Sales Tax
There was a tax protest in front of the Thompson Center in Chicago on Tuesday, July 1st to oppose the $500 million Cook County Sales Tax increase. NTUI was there to speak and can be seen on NBC 5 TV Chicago’s website. Click here to link to the video on NBC’s website.
