Jim Tobin’s Warning of Higher Income Taxes

Since Rod Blagojevich beat me for governor is 2002 (I got 2% as the Libertarian Party candidate) and Jim Tobin for Lt. Governor, Tobin has been sending out fund raising appeals warning that the income tax was about to pass.

During Blagojevich’s impeachment trial, this envelop arrived with first class postage.

It says,

PATRICK QUINN WILL
SUPPORT STATE
INCOME TAX HIKE!

This time he might be right.

Channel Two’s Mike Flannery, who said he went to school with Quinn, is predicting that Quinn will tell Illinois residents that the state is $4 billion in debt after he takes office.

Isn’t that special?

Rod Blagojevich was telling voters in 2002 that George Ryan had put the state in debt $5 billion. I figured it would take two years to work our way out that problem.

But Blagojevich and his Democratic Party friends spent an extra billion dollars a year expanding health care, putting more money into state aid to education, etc.

So, Illinois–at the end of six years of Democratic Party rule–is still broke.

And, naturally, the Democrats answer is higher taxes…always higher taxes.
Read this story about what Pat Quinn has advocated in 2004.

That makes Tobin’s letter so very, very topical.

Tobin starts his January 26th with this quote,

“It’s a demanding time when we might all have to make sacrifices.”

“Grab your wallet with both hands and hold tight, because unless we move really fast, your state income tax probably will be raised 33% and maybe as high as 67% in the next few weeks.”

While not defending Blagojevich, Tobin stresses,

“The real reason Chicago machine boss and House Speaker Michael Madigan wants to replace Gov. Blagojevich with Lt. Gov. Patrick Quinn is to have a governor who supports raising the state income tax.

“What really galls the Illinois political establishment is that Gov. Blagojevich has kept his promise to oppose any increase in the state income tax. That’s why they are so eager to replace him with Lt. Gov. Quinn, who has stated his enthusiasm for a big state income tax hike.”

Tobin’s phone number is 312-427-5128. The email address is ntui@ntui.org. The web site is http://www.ntui.org. NTU’s address is 407 S. Dearborn, Suite 1170, Chicago, IL 60605.


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