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A Progressive Income Tax Proposal Will Not Satisfy the Illinois Taxeaters
Back in the 1990s, Illinois conservatives watched as Republican governors cooperated with General Assembly Democrats to lay a foundation for our state’s current fiscal disaster. Today, as 25 percent of the state’s budget goes to paying overly-generous pensions for government employees, some sleepy slow-to-learn Republicans are waking up to the fact that something is amiss.
The good news is that Democratic candidate for governor J.B. Pritzker has a plan to solve our state’s revenue problem. Of course, I’m kidding: we don’t have a revenue problem, we have a spending problem.
A proposal for a graduated income tax in Illinois …
Posted in Illinois Politics
Tagged Bruce Rauner, Cole Lauterbach, Dave McSweeney, Greg Bishop, Illinois Policy Institute, J.B. Pritzker, Jerry Costello, Jim Long, Mark Glennon, Progressive Income Tax
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