Limiting how much units of government can raise taxes could provide much-needed relief for overtaxed Illinoisans. Illinois residents have the highest property tax rate in the nation. Over the past 50 years, property taxes in Illinois have grown 2.5 times...
August IDES report shows 22,000 people dropped out of the workforce, and 4,400 manufacturing jobs were lost. The Illinois workforce shrank by 22,000 people in August, according to a new report by the Illinois Department of Employment Security, or IDES....
Joe Van Duyne works for the City of Joliet. While on what a reasonable person would think is City of Joliet time, he parks his city truck at the County Bldg. 302 N. Chicago and attends the County Board...
IVES: WHAT DOES $400 MILLION BUY IN ILLINOIS? By State Rep. Jeanne Ives (R-Wheaton) -  Illinois Review 9/14/2016 Anyone paying attention in Illinois knows government operations are being held together with promissory notes, shoe laces and chewing gum. Most also probably...
How Ted Cruz’s Internet Offensive Could Change Spending Strategy in the House Philip Wegmann / @PhilipWegmann / September 13, 2016 / Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, is leading Senate Republicans in an effort to halt the White House effort to end U.S....
Conservatives Should Worry: Democrat Senator Says Progressive Supreme Court Top Goal Tiffany Bates / @TiffanyHBates / John G. Malcolm / @malcolm_john / September 13, 2016 / comments “A progressive majority on the Supreme Court is an imperative, and if I become...
WND EXCLUSIVE COMEY HAS LONG HISTORY OF CASES ENDING FAVORABLE TO CLINTONS In Berger probe said 'we take issues of classified information very seriously' Published: 07/07/2016 at 8:54 PM NEW YORK – FBI Director James Comey has a long history of involvement in...
Government jobs growth continues while Illinois’ private sector suffers from burdensome taxes and regulations. Government taking too much money from the private economy through taxation and imposing too many regulations has in large part driven Illinois’ sluggish economic growth. As...
More government workers are taking home massive yearly pension payments as Chicagoans are battered by tax hikes.   As Chicagoans face a hefty hike in their water and sewer bills to pay for city-worker pensions, the number of retired workers receiving...
America under attack! Posted on September 8, 2016 by Bob LivingstonViews: 2,392 144 Shares I began publishing my monthly newsletter The Bob Livingston Letter™ (subscription required) in 1969. The following is the first column I wrote in the days after the September 11, 2001...

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