Taxpayers Win Big in April 9 Election!
View Release as PDF Chicago – Taxpayers United of America (TUA) helped local activists defeat 4 more property tax increase referenda. This makes our Illinois property tax increase referenda victories 197! We were also successful in 2 of 3 Home Rule battles. We have effectively helped taxpayers beat down 200 Home Rule referenda in our [...]
Taxpayers Fight Back on Local Tax Increases
View Release as PDF Chicago – Illinois taxpayers are fighting local tax expansion and increase referenda with the help of Taxpayers United of America (TUA). TUA is helping activists in Itasca SD 10 and McClellan CCSD 12 to defeat property tax increase referenda; Country Club Hills to repeal Home Rule, and in South Chicago Heights and Anna to stop Home [...]
Vote No on Golf School Dist. 67 Property Tax Increase Referendum – Again!
View as PDF CHICAGO—Taxpayers United of America (TUA) is working with taxpayers in Golf School Dist. 67 to oppose the district’s property-tax-increase referendum that will appear on the district’s February 26, 2013 ballot. “This is the only property-tax-increase referendum on the February ballot in the entire State of Illinois,” said Jim Tobin, TUA president. “Homeowners [...]
Cook County Proposes Huge Tax Hike on Poor
View release as a PDF Chicago–Cook County Board boss Toni Preckwinkle’s promotion of a $1.00-per-pack tax increase on cigarettes as a humanitarian initiative has questionable motives, according to Rae Ann McNeilly, director of outreach for Taxpayers United of America (TUA). “Such an increase targets those who can least afford it,” said McNeilly. “Smoking is most prevalent among [...]
Taxpayers Fight Home Rule Taxing Powers
View release as PDF CHICAGO-”Home Rule” is one of the most financially devastating schemes Illinois politicians have ever come up with, according to Jim Tobin, President of Taxpayers United of America (TUA). “Home Rule means, literally, Home Rule Unlimited Taxing Power,” said Tobin. “A Home Rule municipality can create just about any tax under the [...]
It’s a Spending Problem, Not a Revenue Problem – Even in Shawano, Wisconsin!
View release as a PDF SHAWANO—Taxpayers United of America (TUA) released salaries and estimated pension payouts for Shawano School District government employees. “At a time when bureaucrats are trying to raise property taxes, one might think that they tighten their own belts, but not in Shawano, Wisconsin! They intend to also give themselves a 2% [...]
TUA’s Christina Tobin To Speak Against Proposed Chicago Speed-Trap Cameras
View release as a PDF CHICAGO—Christina Tobin, Vice President of Taxpayers United of America (TUA), will speak against Chicago’s proposed speed-camera ordinance on Wednesday, April 11. The Committee on Pedestrian and Traffic Safety will convene at 1 PM in City Council Chambers at City Hall Wednesday, April 11, to discuss the proposed law. The proposed law would [...]
Clean Sweep: TUA Defeats All 7 Tax-Increase Referenda
View release as a PDF CHICAGO–The president of Taxpayers United of America (TUA) today announced that “the organization, its members and supporters defeated the 7 tax-increase referenda yesterday.” “It’s a great victory for Illinois taxpayers,” said Tobin. “The seven ballot measures are the largest number of tax-increase referenda we have opposed in a single election [...]
Taxpayers Oppose City of Princeton’s Referendum for ‘Unlimited Home Rule Taxing Power’ on March 20
View release as PDF CHICAGO–The President of Taxpayers United of America (TUA) today urged voters in the City of Princeton, Illinois, to vote “NO” on the March 20 referendum to adopt unlimited home rule taxing power, adding, “Compared to the average income in Princeton, city politicians and bureaucrats already are living like kings.” “Right now, [...]
Taxpayers United Urges “NO” Vote on $400 March 20 Evanston-Skokie Sch. Dist. 65 Property Tax Increase Referendum
View release as a PDF CHICAGO–The President of Taxpayers United of America (TUA) today urged all voters in Evanston-Skokie School Dist. 65 to vote “NO” on the March 20 property tax increase referendum, adding, “Don’t build palaces for the bureaucrats.” “The salaries and benefits of government-school bureaucrats and teachers in Evanston-Skokie School Dist. 65 are [...]
TUA Opposes 7 Tax-Increase Referenda Scheduled For March 20 Election
Click here to view as a PDF. CHICAGO–The president of Taxpayers United of America (TUA) today announced that the taxpayer organization is opposing 7 tax-increase referenda that will appear on the March 20 ballot in Illinois. “This is the largest number of tax-increase referenda appearing on a single date we have opposed since 1982,” [...]
Oppose 90% Toll Tax Increase!
Click here to view this Taxpayer Alert as a PDF. The Illinois Toll Highway Authority today holds its final two public hearings on the proposed 90 percent toll tax increase. Today’s hearings will be in Schaumburg (Cook County) from 4pm to 6pm and Buffalo Grove (Lake County) from 7pm to 9pm. Boosters for the toll [...]
Oppose 90% Toll Tax Increase!
Click here to view this Taxpayer Alert as a PDF. The Illinois Toll Highway Authority today holds the second to last in a series of 6 remaining public hearings on the proposed 90% toll increase. Today’s hearings will be in Lee, Ogle, Whiteside, and Winnebago Counties from 7pm to 9pm. Boosters for the toll hike—including [...]
Taxpayers Oppose Civic Federation’s Suggested $1-a-pack Cigarette Tax Increase
CHICAGO–The President of Taxpayers United of America (TUA) today condemned the Civic Federation’s recommendation that the state tax on a pack of cigarettes be raised $1-a-pack. “Not only would such a huge tax increase be counterproductive, but this high regressive tax would drive many small stores out of business, especially minority businesses that are barely [...]
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