January 3, 2017 Data from moving companies reflect continued mass exodus from Illinois.   Illinois’ surging debts, rising property taxes, weak job creation and political dysfunction continue to be a boon to large moving companies United Van Lines and Atlas Van Lines....
December 31, 2016 To address the city’s worsening financial crises, Chicago politicians turned up the dial on their usual answer to budgetary woes: raising taxes. Being a Chicago taxpayer got a lot pricier in 2016. To make up for decades of financial...
With the continuing battle in Springfield for a state budget, and the continuing need for true reform in the State of Illinois, it is increasingly difficult for any local property tax payer to understand where their money goes and...
Local governments raise sales tax in Illinois January 3, 2017 2017 brings a slew of new sales tax hikes for 20 municipalities in Illinois. Effective Jan. 1, 20 Illinois cities and local governments increased local sales taxes, according to the Illinois Department...
Americans saying goodbye to high-tax states Posted on January 9, 2017 by Sam RolleyViews: 1,922 118 Shares https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mvp_0IVbkY8 State and local lawmakers take note: a growing number of American workers, business owners and retirees are showing their disgust with sky-high taxes by voting...
Why a budget won’t fix Illinois January 5, 2017 Pension costs alone now consume a quarter of the Illinois state budget. Did you feel it? As 2016 expired at midnight Dec. 31, so too did Illinois’ stopgap budget. That six-month spending plan pushed...
Illinois House Democrats re-elected state Rep. Mike Madigan to his longtime post as House Speaker Jan. 11. Madigan is now set to become the longest-serving House speaker in modern U.S. history. By the end of his two-year term in 2019,...
How to Drain the Health Care Swamp Conservative principles, not political posturing, should guide the repeal and replacement of Obamacare. By Gov. Bobby Jindal for POLITICO Republicans have been winning elections for years by promising to repeal and replace the Affordable Care...
Rx for Obummercare: pull — no, yank the plug, totally Posted on January 6, 2017 by Becky AkersViews: 2,075 367 Shares When Congress reconvened earlier this week, “leaders of both houses their first order of business be to repeal Obamacare....
Tribune: Illinois residents aren't frogs, won't remain in Madigan's boiling pot LOCAL GOVERNMENT Will County Gazette | Jan 9, 2017   Invoking an old wives’ tale referring to ambivalent, “average" amphibians, the Chicago Tribune recently created an analogy between disinterested Illinois taxpayers and...

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