Ill.Gov. Patrick Quinn, one of the most crafty and slippery politicians the state has produced, has created a smokescreen to hide the real reason for pushing an increase in the state income tax of up to 67%, according to Jim Tobin, President of National Taxpayers United of Illinois (NTUI). Read more →
CHICAGO–Against great odds, taxpayers emerged triumphant over Springfield tax-raisers, said Jim Tobin, President of National Taxpayers United of Illinois (NTUI), commenting on the Illinois House’s defeat of two proposed increases in the state personal and corporate income taxes of 50 percent and 67 percent. Read more →
May 4, 2009
An Open Letter To Members of the Illinois State legislature:
Dear Illinois Legislator:
I am a non-union teacher at Harold L. Richards High School in Oak Lawn. This Wednesday, thousands of my union colleagues will take the day off and descend en masse on Springfield for the Illinois Education Association’s annual Lobby Day. This year’s major goal is to browbeat you into supporting a massive state income tax increase, to throw even more taxpayer dollars into teacher pensions. The teachers-cum-lobbyists will couch their self-serving pleas in altruistic rhetoric, but their goals have nothing to do with the quality of classroom instruction–or they would be in the classroom on Wednesday providing it!
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