Economic development committee wants to review county policies
Members want to look at potentially anti-business policies through economic viewpoint
By MIKE MALLORYEmailFollow
July 19, 2017
JOLIET – Part of the mission statement of the Will County Board’s Ad Hoc Economic Development Committee is to...
Don’t be fooled — the Federal Reserve will continue rate hikes despite economic crisis
Posted on July 18, 2017 by Brandon Smith
Though stock markets in general are meaningless and indicate nothing in terms of the health of the economy, they still function as...
ILLINOIS NEWS NETWORK
Illinois lawmakers agreed to almost a dozen new pension laws this year. But none of them will address the state's biggest pension problem: The costs.
Of the ten new pension laws that lawmakers agreed to, just three deal...
House advances bill to help stop IRS from stealing Americans’ money
Posted on July 14, 2017 by Sam Rolley
Bipartisan legislation that would place new limits on when the Internal Revenue Service is permitted to seize money in taxpayer bank accounts got approval in...
Berg: After historic tax hike, the real pain has just begun
By Austin Berg | Illinois News Network
Jul 13, 2017
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The infamous budget impasse is over. But rather than rejoice, Illinoisans should recoil.
The pain that washed over...
The Fed Can't Fix This
By Briton Ryle
Written Monday, July 17, 2017
I wouldn't be Chairman of the Federal Reserve Bank if you paid me (and I'm pretty sure it's a paying gig, so that's how much I would never do it).
Because...
"Engineers Begin Preparatory Work for Border Wall Construction"
- Ron Nixon, The New York Times
The New York Times details how the United States Army Corps of Engineers has begun preliminary preparations to begin construction of a wall along the border with...
Tax the Rich!
By Briton Ryle
Written Wednesday, July 19, 2017
This chart shows Americans' inflation-adjusted income growth for the last 55 years.
It's not a pretty picture. The rich are getting richer, while everybody else is treading water.
With a chart like this (from a 2016 paper...
As you may have seen reported in the Hill and other publications last week, on Tuesday, July 11, NACo, NLC, GFOA and the other Big 7 state and local partners hosted a briefing (Protecting Local Control in Our Tax...
Illinois congressmen praise rollback of Obama-era waters rule
By Cole Lauterbach | Illinois News Network
Jul 12, 2017
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http://willcountynews.com/2015/12/07/the-epas-water-power-grab-changing-the-definition-of-water/
http://willcountynews.com/2016/01/26/epa-waters-of-the-u-s-incredible-overreach-by-government/
ILLINOIS NEWS NETWORK
Critics of an Obama-era regulation that is in legal limbo say it would make small creeks on private...
