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Alex Voorman, Policy Analyst of National Taxpayers United of Illinois (NTUI), today urged St. Sen. James T. Meeks (D-15, Calumet City) to rescind his call for Chicago Public School students to skip the first day of school on September 2nd and be bussed over to New Trier High School in Winnetka to register for classes.  Meeks claimed this move will highlight the inequality in funding between Chicago and its more affluent suburbs. Read more

UPDATE: It appears that the Governor has taken our advice.  His new proposal for the capital spending bill would include diverting state sales taxes on gasoline into the spending program

CHICAGO— The president of Illinois’ largest taxpayer group urged lawmakers to use tax money collected from gasoline sales taxes for road repairs, not to pad lavish government pensions by funneling the money into the state’s general fund. Read more

The beat of the drum grows louder and louder calling for massive state income tax increase. In both the Illinois House and Senate, Democrats representing Chicago and its suburbs are the primary sponsors of legislation that will increase the state income tax by 67% and the corporate tax by 44% resulting in a loss of 100,000 private sector jobs. One downstate Republican is also a sponsor of the tax hike legislation. Those bills are Senate Bill 2288 (SB2288), House Bill 750 (HB750) and Senate Bill 750 (SB750). Read more

On July 1st Alex Voorman attended Tony Peraica’s tax protest at the Tompson Center in Chicago.  The protest was designed to gain support for a repeal of the recently enacted 1% Cook County Sales Tax increase.

TOTAL STATE REVENUES UP FOR SIXTH YEAR IN A ROW

CHICAGO- For the sixth year in a row, since ITEF began tracking state revenue, total Illinois state revenue is significantly up from the previous year, according to data from the Illinois Comptroller’s website. Total tax revenue for FY 2008 has increased $2.3 billion over FY 2007. State revenue has increased $5.1 billion over the past two years with $2.3 billion of that coming from income taxes, with no increase in the tax rate. Read more

NTUI’s Alex Voorman was interviewed by CBS 2 Chicago regarding the $500 million Cook County sales tax increase.

The video can be seen here.

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