Under Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker’s progressive tax proposal, Illinois’ business tax climate ranking would plummet to 48th in the nation, beating out only California and New Jersey on the nonpartisan Tax Foundation’s State Business Tax Climate Index.
That index measures state tax competitiveness...
Millennials, Socialism and Venezuela
The infatuation with redistribution could be cured with this example.
Arnold Ahlert
The Millennial Generation is infatuated with socialism. So much so, a Gallup pollreveals a whopping 69% of them are willing to vote for a “socialist” candidate for...
Limited school choices hurt Illinoisans
By Dan McCaleb | Illinois News Network
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Imagine a life without choices.
One in which there's just a single option available to you for most everything.
Lunchtime? Enjoy your peanut butter and jelly sandwich, or go...
Steve Balich Conservative Activist
Trade is a fundamental element of human survival. No one person can produce every single product or service necessary for a comfortable life, no matter how spartan their...
Steve Balich Conservative Activist
Steve Balich Editors Note: We all need to remember the Global New World Order pushed by Socialist will only be good for the people on the top...
Steve Balich Conservative Activist
Op-Ed: Madigan’s power runs deeper than the speaker vote
By Austin Berg | Illinois News NetworkFacebookTwitterEmail
Illinois House Speaker Michael Madigan...
House Dems move to make raising taxes easier
by Paul Bedard
Democrats taking control of the House of Representatives this week have already proposed a change in rules to make it far easier to raise taxes.
The rule change, according to an analysis...
Sorry, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, but Conservatives Don’t Care About Your Dance Moves
Kelsey Harkness
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., gets sworn into the 116th Congress at the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 3, 2019. (Photo: Olivier Douliery/ABACAPRESS.COM/Newscom)
Kelsey Harkness is a senior news producer...
Steve Balich Editors note: Ephesians 6:12 For our struggle is not against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the powers, against the world forces of this darkness, against the spiritual forces of wickedness in the heavenly places.
Globalism or...
Data from Illinois’ six largest pension systems show 19,158 former government workers collect annual pensions of more than $100,000, costing those systems nearly $2.4 billion combined in fiscal year 2018.
Six-figure pensioners enrolled in those systems contributed an average of...