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Tax Fighter Chris Jenner Earns Endorsement from TA in McHenry County College Board Race 0

April 9 2013 Election / Candidate Endorsements / Items of Interest / Latest / Tax Accountability

Tax Fighter Chris Jenner Earns Endorsement from TA in McHenry County College Board Race

View Release as PDF Chicago – Tax Accountability (TA), the political action arm of Taxpayers United of America (TUA) has endorsed Chris Jenner in his bid for McHenry County College Board. “Known as a tax-fighter...

Taxpayers Fight Back on Local Tax Increases 0

Anna, IL / Country Club Hills, IL / Itasca SD-10, IL / Latest / McClellan CCSD-12, IL / Our Research in use / South Chicago Heights, IL / Taxpayer Alert

Taxpayers Fight Back on Local Tax Increases

View Release as PDF Chicago – Illinois taxpayers are fighting local tax expansion and increase referenda with the help of Taxpayers United of America (TUA). TUA is helping activists in Itasca SD 10 and McClellan...

Quinn, Cullerton & Madigan Fail – Kane and Kendall County Taxpayers Crushed by Hundreds of Pension Millionaires 0

Illinois / Latest / News Releases / Pension Reform

Quinn, Cullerton & Madigan Fail – Kane and Kendall County Taxpayers Crushed by Hundreds of Pension Millionaires

View Release as PDF Aurora—Taxpayers United of America (TUA) today released the results of a new pension study of the employees of the Cities of Aurora and Yorkville, Kane and Kendall Counties, Kane and...

Jim Tobin Talks About Pensions and the Illinois State Financial Crisis 0

Events / Illinois / Latest

Jim Tobin Talks About Pensions and the Illinois State Financial Crisis

View Release as PDF Chicago – Jim Tobin, president of Taxpayers United of America (TUA) will be a guest on Truth Talk Radio with Bailey and Binsner on WEFT 90.1 on Wednesday, March 6,...

Taxpayers of Golf SD 67 Win 3rd Battle Against Property Tax Increase 0

Events / Golf SD 67, IL / Latest / News Releases / Our Research in use

Taxpayers of Golf SD 67 Win 3rd Battle Against Property Tax Increase

View Release as PDF Homeowners in Golf School District 67 overwhelmingly defeated a property-tax increase referendum on Tuesday, February 26, 2013. Taxpayers United of America (TUA) worked with local taxpayers, providing informational flyers and...

Chicago Police Sergeants Wise to Reform Pensions 0

Illinois / Latest / News Releases

Chicago Police Sergeants Wise to Reform Pensions

View Release as PDF CHICAGO—The Chicago Police Sergeants’ Association is to be commended for its realistic appraisal of the crisis in state and local pensions, and for its sensible decision to embrace a pension-reform...

Hundreds of Bloomington – Normal Government Retirees Become Pension Millionaires at Taxpayer Expense 0

Illinois / Latest / News Releases / Pension Reform

Hundreds of Bloomington – Normal Government Retirees Become Pension Millionaires at Taxpayer Expense

View Release as PDF Bloomington—Taxpayers United of America (TUA) today released the results of a new pension study of the employees of the Cities of Bloomington and Normal, McLean County, McLean County government schools,...

Myths About Average Government Pension$ Debunked 1

Illinois / Latest

Myths About Average Government Pension$ Debunked

View Release as PDF CHICAGO—Illinois politicians and government union bosses are trying to deflect criticism of their lavish, gold-plated pensions by throwing out a deceptive “average” pension figure of $30,000, according to the president...

Wilmette School District 39 Fails To Provide Evidence That Its April 2011 Referendum Ballot Language "Followed Illinois Law" 1

Illinois / Latest / Lawsuits / Oak Park-Wilmette

Wilmette School District 39 Fails To Provide Evidence That Its April 2011 Referendum Ballot Language "Followed Illinois Law"

View as PDF CONTACT: Herbert Sorock (847) 251-8955 (h) email: h.sorock@gmail.com WILMETTE, IL –Wilmette School District 39 has failed to substantiate its December 3, 2012, claim in a media release that its April 2011...