Pritzker’s $3.4B income tax hike can fund less than 4 months of state pension costs – IL Policy
Without reform, Illinois’ pension problem will continue to force tax hikes while crowding out the core services residents need.
Without reform, Illinois’ pension problem will continue to force tax hikes while crowding out the core services residents need.
Comment: This is essentially organized labor’s argument for a progressive income tax, making their case that it will solve a long list of Illinois’ problems. The full study is linked here.
“Since it seems politically expedient right now to question my motives and actions….”
Rare but welcome — bipartisan cooperation on a good step.
And the same goes for Governor Pritzker.
Comment: They trashed the term “liberal,” an honorable label in its classical meaning. They made the terms “do-gooder” and “social justice warrior” synonymous with naivete. It’s only a matter of time before the far left likewise makes “progressive” an epithet they’ll have to abandon.

Imagine you committed a racial hate crime where you falsely accused people who didn’t look or think like you of a horrible atrocity, and that you’d have gladly picked some poor saps with the wrong skin tone out of a line-up and sent them to prison for decades given the chance. Now imagine the two half-wits you hired to help you managed to get caught on video buying their stereotype get-up and spilled it all to the fuzz, though the fact you paid them with a check – because you’re a criminal
Comment: Perhaps more importantly in this article, “If she’s recused she knows nothing more about the case than you or I do and really has no business opining or speaking for the office about that case if she was, in fact, recused.” Most recently, she has an op-ed in the Tribune.”
Comment: Another case of progressives’ indifference to unintended consequences.
Comment: We will be writing soon about why this seemingly obscure ruling is important to Illinois.

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