Illinois Policy Institute exec: Fair Tax will give low-income workers relief equal to $6 ‘fast food meal’ – Chicago City Wire

“Separation makes you vulnerable and progressive tax regimes allow for that separation,” said Austin Berg, vice president of marketing with the Illinois Policy Institute. “Claims that this tax is in any way helpful to the working poor in Illinois is insulting...They would be stuck paying the highest tax burden in the Midwest for low-income workers and the third highest tax burden in the nation for low-income workers.”