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Taxpayers Fight Back on Local Tax Increases 0

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...

Kane County Chronicle | Study: Former area school superintendents get top pensions 0

Kane County Chronicle | Study: Former area school superintendents get top pensions

Findings from TUA’s pension project on Kane and Kendall counties are featured in this story from the Kane County Chronicle. Several former area school superintendents topped the list of those collecting the biggest pensions...

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

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...

Morton Grove Champion | District 67 officials are taking a restrained approach to referendum 0

Morton Grove Champion | District 67 officials are taking a restrained approach to referendum

TUA’s work in helping Golf taxpayers oppose a property-tax-increase referendum was featured in the Morton Grove Champion. Officials in Golf Elementary School District 67 are taking a restrained approach to this month’s tax hike referendum,...

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

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

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

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...

The Pantagraph | President of tax reform group calls for major changes to Illinois pensions 0

The Pantagraph | President of tax reform group calls for major changes to Illinois pensions

Findings from TUA’s pension project on Bloomington-Normal, Illinois, are featured in this story from The Pantagraph. BLOOMINGTON — Jim Tobin, president of Taxpayers United of America, is traveling throughout Illinois, including a stop Tuesday...