SPRINGFIELD – A vote to change Illinois from a flat tax to a graduated rate state is in the works in the Illinois legislature. Americans for Prosperity-Illinois' Executive Director David From, concerned that the average Illinois taxpayer could pay 2% more in state income taxes, sent out the following alert after lunch Tuesday:
Politicians in Springfield will vote this week - possibly even today - on a constitutional amendment seeking to scrap our state's flat income tax and replace it with a graduated, or progressive, one. This legislation would likely result in greater job loss and continual tax hikes by a General Assembly that seems to be unable to control its appetite for more tax dollars.
CLICK HERE and tell your legislators that you OPPOSE a graduated income tax!
Why should Illinoisans trust Springfield politicians enough to give them carte blanche ability to add brackets, increase the rates or lower the income threshold at which higher rates apply? It's no accident a recent Gallup poll highlighted that a mere 25% of Illinoisans "are confident in their state government" – worse than any other state. Urge your legislators to oppose the graduated income tax!
Amongst the 34 states (and the District of Columbia) with a graduated income tax, Illinois' median household income ($57,444) would be taxed at a top marginal rate of 5.46%, nearly two full percentage points higher than our current 3.75% flat income tax. Do you trust Springfield politicians with greater ability to raise your taxes? If your answer is "NO," then click here to tell your legislators that you oppose a graduated income tax!
Punishing job creators is not the answer to moving Illinois in the right direction, nor is removing legislative barriers that prevent continual tax hikes by a General Assembly that has an addiction to tax dollars. Please take a moment RIGHT NOW and send a message to your legislators telling them you OPPOSE the graduated income tax.
While this might sound good, it also sounds like “rearranging the deck chairs on the Titanic.” The same group is talking about making every road in Illinois a tollway along with more and more fees for everything.
I would like to think about shrinking the size, scope, and cost of government. We do this with less taxes, less spending, less borrowing, less regulation, and less corruption. We need to eliminate all government pensions so everybody either had no pension or an IRA of 401k that is 100% funded and self directed or social security which you max out ag $38,000, like me.
I would start by cutting the number of 177 state legislators in half, eliminate their district office, eliminate township government, consolidate school districts, and about 300 ideas I have just off the top of my head.
Stop passing laws, stop funded and unfunded mandates, and dont talk about changing tax structure, just lower all of them
Easy solutions
Illinoisans already pay the highest property taxes in the nation, now they want us to pay the highest income tax!
It’s funny how quickly they could care less about graduating pensions based on income. This is about rushing through tax increases on the working Middle Class, folks who couldn’t just pick up and abandon the state like rich people are doing right now. Oh, and making a carve out for their pets. Governor, veto it.
I would start by cutting the number of 177 state legislators in half, eliminate their district office, eliminate township government, consolidate school districts, and about 300 ideas I have just off the top of my head.
So you would put more power in the hands of fewer people. Very conservative-libertarian of you.