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Eric Zorn: "The principle of equal treatment says that income is income, whether you’re young or old, whether you’re working for it or reaping it after the end of your career. And the devious effort to distract us with talk of retirement income takes our eye off the real question: Which system of taxation will best protect those toward the bottom of the income scale as we close our massive budget gap?"
With $162 billion more from taxpayers, couldn’t you deliver a few bond upgrades, too
A largely unasked question is becoming glaring: Is Illinois doing all it should to use artificial intelligence to make government cost less and work better? So far, the evidence says no.
Everybody needs a side hustle these days, and mine is Ukraine, where I am now.
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I know a lot of retired voters who might have a different take. They’ll make time to vote on this issue.
Mr Zorn completely ignored the public employee unions view on taxing retirement income. Fake argument.