WITHOUT PROTECTION, CHICAGO OLYMPICS PUTS TAXPAYERS ON HOOK FOR BILLIONS Without liability protection, a Chicago 2016 Olympics will put Illinois taxpayers on the hook for billions of dollars, according to the president of Illinois’...
IT’S OFFICIAL: ILLINOIS FY2009 REVENUE HIGHER THAN FY2008 The figures just released from the Illinois Comptroller’s Office for the fiscal year ending June 30, 2009, (http://www.ioc.state.il.us) indicate that total state revenue for Fiscal Year...
Ill.Gov. Patrick Quinn, one of the most crafty and slippery politicians the state has produced, has created a smokescreen to hide the real reason for pushing an increase in the state income tax of...
TOTAL STATE REVENUES DIP MODESTLY IN FY2009 By Jim Tobin For the first time in six years, since ITEF began tracking state revenue, total Illinois state revenue is down from the previous year, according...
CHICAGO–The president of Illinois’ largest taxpayer organization questioned whether anyone in Springfield actually knows or even cares what the budget “deficit” really is, in view of the multiplicity of figures thrown out by the...
The purported $9 billion deficit in state revenues will be wiped out without raising the state income tax, according to Jim Tobin, President of National Taxpayers United of Illinois (NTUI). Tobin cited the massive...
ITEF was in Peoria on Wednesday, Febraury 11 to speak with local media regarding the state “revenue crisis”. NTUI President Jim Tobin also addressed Gov. Patrick Quinn’s support for state income tax hike.
TOTAL STATE REVENUES DIP MODESTLY IN FY2009 By Jim Tobin Peoria – For the first time in six years, since ITEF began tracking state revenue, total Illinois state revenue is down from the previous...
15 reporters, including all 3 local network TV stations, attended ITEF’s Springfield news conference yesterday, January 12. There, ITEF President Jim Tobin fielded questions regarding state revenues and what should be done to curb...
TOTAL STATE REVENUES DIP MODESTLY IN FY2009
By Jim Tobin
Springfield – For the first time in six years, since ITEF began tracking state revenue, total Illinois state revenue is down from the previous year, according to data from the Illinois Comptroller’s website. Total tax revenue for the first 6 months of FY 2009 decreased $1.2 billion, 3.8%, over the same period in FY 2008. This modest dip in state revenue is not a fiscal crisis…
