The president of Illinois’ largest taxpayer organization announced that their just-completed tax survey, exposing Illinois General Assembly members who voted for the huge CTA-bailout tax increase, has been sent to leaders of 200 local taxpayer groups, as well as to its members.
Click here for the news release.
Click here for the Senate voting results.
Click here for the House voting results.
1/16/2008
Today’s Chicago Tribune reports 320,000 people take CTA bus routes facing elimination. However, this represents approximately 160,000 people riding to and from their house. The proposed cuts affect only 5 percent of the population. 95 percent of the people would be unaffected but all would be forced to pay $530 million more in taxes to finance CTA salaries and million dollar pension benefits for CTA employees. (For example, a 55 year old CTA employee making $80,000 who retires with 25 years on the job receives more than $1 million in pension benefits in the first 20 years.) Members of the Illinois General Assembly should resist being duped by greedy union employees and Chicago politicians who want to throw more taxpayer dollars at the moribund CTA. Please vote ‘NO’ on HB 656 and force the CTA to reform.
