Jim Tobin, A Friend Of Liberty (1945-2021)
May 2nd, 2022
In a long history of mismanagement, Chicago bureaucrats have done nearly everything possible to destroy the most magnificent city in the mid-west. Now its future is on the chopping block.
“Illinois Governor Jay Robert ‘J. B.’ Pritzker, probably the most incompetent governor in the history of the state, is crushing Illinois small businesses with his Draconian lockdown measures,” said Jim Tobin, economist and president of Taxpayer Education Foundation (TEF). “Yet, despite being the10th most restrictive state, Illinois’ COVID-19 death rate is higher than all of its neighbors.”
View as PDF“The far-left politicians in Blue States who are pushing stricter-and-stricter lockdowns supposedly to contain the COVID-19 virus have an agenda, but their agenda has nothing to do with medicine,” said Jim Tobin,...
The $900 billion spending bill signed into law last week will not create jobs; it is a massive job killer, according to Jim Tobin, economist and president of Taxpayer Education Foundation (TEF).
View As PDF “Johns Hopkins published a study on its website, and then the study mysteriously disappeared,” said Jim Tobin, president of Taxpayers Education Foundation (TEF). “One has to wonder what ‘they’—whoever ‘they’ may...
After destroying Chicago’s economy with her unconstitutional lockdowns, Lori “Lockdown”
Lightfoot is seeking a projected estimate of a $94 million dollar increase in Chicago’s
property tax. In response, the Taxpayer Education Foundation (TEF) has launched an
investigation to see whether the tax increases are justified.
Gov. Jay Robert “J. B.” Pritzker and his allies in the Democrat-controlled Illinois General Assembly are trying to convince voters that their constitutional amendment to the Illinois Constitution, on the November 3 statewide ballot, would create a “fair” graduated state income tax. They make the astonishing claim that taxes would be raised only on those who can afford it, and that middle- and lower-class families would not be adversely affected.
Gov. Jay Robert “J. B.” Pritzker and his cronies in the Democrat-controlled Illinois General Assembly are telling voters that their proposed constitutional amendment to the Illinois Constitution on the November 3 statewide ballot would be a “fair” tax increase. They make the astonishing claim that their proposed graduated state income tax would raise taxes only on those who can afford it, and that middle- and lower-class families would not be adversely affected. This is a barefaced lie.
In an example of excellent investigating reporting, the Southern Illinois News exposed a “folksy” misleading ad for the Pritzker so-called “fair tax” amendment to the Illinois Constitution on the November 3 ballot.
View As PDF The proposed so-called “fair tax” amendment to the Illinois Constitution on the November 3 ballot, sponsored by Springfield Democrats and pushed by Ill. Gov. Jay Robert “J. B.” Pritzker, is a...