I don’t smoke. Never have. But hiking cigarette taxes a buck a pack strikes me as discrimination against a minority portion of the electorate. Even if it is phased in over two years. How will Illinois rank with other states … Continue reading
So I show my 12-year old the Chicago Sun-Times article as he is reading a book for school. The headline reads, NEW MONEY-MAKING IDEA FOR STATE: iTAX Dad: “Here’s an article that might interest you. Governor Quinn wants to tax … Continue reading
Yesterday, I pointed to three liberal news sources in which Governor Pat Quinn’s proposed 33% income tax hike was described as a “one percent” increase. My research was incomplete. Since then, I have found that Chicago’s Public Broadcasting Station is … Continue reading
Here we go again. The liberal apologists in the media are promoting the Governor Pat Quinn’s 33% income tax increase as a “one percent increase.” Maybe it’s not their liberal bent. Maybe they have problems with math. The first notice … Continue reading
Naturally the black hole that wishes to eat a couple thousand dollars of my income originates in Chicago. Consider he Chicago Sun-Times today. Look at the cover. Abraham Lincoln is crying because taxes aren’t higher. He isn’t crying because people … Continue reading
Going down the drain by an almost 2-1 margin is the attempt of the Marengo-Union Grade School District 165 School Board to hike its non-referendum borrowing limit by almost four times. Details on the proposal can be found here. Here … Continue reading
How would you like to live in Marengo and have your grade school board members ask whether you would allow them to increase part of your tax bill by 3¾ times? Forever. That’s the way I read the language on … Continue reading
If you looked at the front page of the Chicago Tribune Sunday, you saw five candidates on top of the page. They are ones that the Tribune’s poll found leading in both the Democratic and Republican Party primaries. It was … Continue reading
About the same time the Northwest Herald was endorsing Jim Ryan, the man whose buddy and over-$800,000-contributor arranged (without Ryan’s knowledge) for Mercy Hospital to gain approval from the Illinois Health Facilitates Planning Board, my friend former State Rep. Penny … Continue reading
After the Tuesday 1776 breakfast sponsored by State Senator Pam Althoff, GOP gubernatorial candidate Kirk Dillard answered what I consider “the tough question:” “Will you sign a pledge not to raise taxes like Andy McKenna did Monday?” I got a … Continue reading
Certainly it will be hard for some readers to grasp, but three of the four Republican legislators representing McHenry County voted for the tax increases on beer, wine, liquor, candy, soft drinks, etc., not to mention putting slot machines in … Continue reading
Just under a month ago Northwest Herald reporter Brett Rowland rocked the McHenry County College political firmament by revealing that the college was considering holding a tax hike referendum: Northwest Herald Reporter Discerns Real Reason for McHenry County College’s $137,750 … Continue reading
The man who used to be on the Chicago Tribune’s editorial page all the time is Dick Locher. He still draws cartoons which the Trib picks up once in a while. His latest ran Sunday. It featured a race car … Continue reading
For those in Grafton Township arguing that building a new town hall and garage won’t cost taxpayers any additional taxes, I again offer the analogy of Daily Herald reporter Jeffrey Gaunt: It’s a little like tacking 10 years onto a … Continue reading
“Ax your tax” seems to have been the sentiment of most tax hike referendum voters in McHenry County this election. Voters in this recession were not kind to tax district officials’ requests for referendums to raise taxes on April 7th. … Continue reading
I can’t tell you how I found this series of photos to WBEZ-FM interviewees, but they surely are interesting. Advance 300’s Nancy Zettler is one of those interviewed. This is what is under her picture: Nancy Zettler, co-chair of Advance … Continue reading
I emailed each of the legislators who represent parts of McHenry County asking if they had a statement on Governor Pat Quinn’s proposal to hike income tax rates by 50%. The Daily Herald has an article today on that topic, … Continue reading
Pretty much nothing in public policy formulation disturbs me more than reporters who do not know anything about percentages. Maybe I shouldn’t be so critical, but when an opinion leader like WTTW’s “Chicago Week in Review” host Joel Weisman asks … Continue reading
Pretty much nothing in public policy formulation disturbs me more than reporters who do not know anything about percentages. Maybe I shouldn’t be so critical, but when an opinion leader like WTTW’s “Chicago Week in Review” host Joel Weisman asks … Continue reading
I reported previously that the hiring of Unicom-ARC, tax hike experts out of St. Louis, ought to put local taxpayers on TAX ALERT status. I reproduce below McHenry County College President Walt Packard’s memo to the McHenry County College Board … Continue reading
