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State Representative Mark Batinick
For Immediate Release Contact: Debbie Kraulidis
February 23, 2017 (815) 254-0000
Will, Kendall County residents encouraged to make their voice heard on state issues
PLAINFIELD – State Representative Mark Batinick (R-Plainfield) is providing a new resource...
Illinois Policy February 16, 2017
Lisa Madigan lost the first round in her quest to stop state worker pay during Illinois’ budget impasse. But that doesn’t mean the matter is settled. The attorney general could take this issue all the...
The new budget plan coming out of the Illinois Senate does little to nothing to reform the state’s reckless spending and financial mismanagement, but does plenty to hurt state taxpayers.
Illinois Senate members have a drafted a new budget plan...
Analysis: Property taxes rapidly eroding DuPage home values
REAL ESTATE
DuPage Policy Journal | Jan 28, 2017
In Jan. 2007, the average Willowbrook home was worth $305,000.
Eight years later, in Jan. 2015, it was valued at just $182,000.
In real, inflation-adjusted dollars, that’s...
By Illinois Policy
January 27, 2017
Lawmakers are proposing a range of new tax hikes as a “compromise” solution to the state’s budget woes. But simple reforms to Illinois’ teacher pension system are a better way to fix the state’s finances...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8OiEZwD1-Jc
Published on Feb 3, 2017 Upstream Ideas
Illinois state senators are pushing multibillion dollar tax hikes on struggling Illinoisans as a "solution" to Illinois' budget woes. But on this edition of Illinois Rising, Dan Proft, Illinois Policy's Michael Lucci and...
How do you balance a budget when your population is fleeing?
State and local governments are demanding more from taxpayers – encouraging many of them to leave instead.
January 29, 2017 Illinois Policy
Due to fiscal crises, both state and local governments are...
For many Illinoisans, the next recession is already here Illinois Policy January 31st 2017
Illinois lost 11,000 manufacturing jobs in 2016.
Illinois is not working.
Since the end of the Great Recession, most members of the Illinois General Assembly have...
From Illinois Policy February 3, 2017
Editors note:
The tax hike proposal comes despite Illinois’ loss of $14 billion in annual income and hundreds of thousands of people in the wake of the 2011 income tax hike.
Is the increased taxes forcing more...
February 3rd 2017
February 03, 2017
Senate could vote on budget framework
Through budget cuts and critical structural reforms that will bring stability to the state, the Illinois Senate could vote next week on a bipartisan budget framework that would produce a...
