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Illinois Policy

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Illinois Policy

@illinoispolicy

Fighting corruption, high taxes, poverty, and barriers to progress and innovation in Illinois and Chicago.

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Illinois Policy
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Jun 12
.@GovPritzker did not "eliminate" his planned gas tax hike, of course. He delayed it until after his election. What makes this lazily fallacious tweet even more egregious is the fact that Pritzker has quietly squeezed Illinois drivers every year since 2019, and he made it so
Governor JB Pritzker
@GovPritzker
Jun 9
We eliminated this year’s inflation on gas tax to give working families some relief at the pump from Donald Trump.
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Illinois Policy
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Jun 12
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Illinois gas tax set to increase every year—without a vote
Gov. J.B. Pritzker’s 2019 “Rebuild Illinois” plan created automatic inflationary adjustments in the state gas tax, which could reach over $1 per gallon by 2056.
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Illinois Policy
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Jun 12
Progressive politicians very often use "millionaires tax" branding to make it sound like the targets of their tax proposals are limited to the ultra-rich. Of course, this is never true. State lawmakers in Illinois were ready to slam 22,000 Illinois small businesses with a
Illinois lawmakers fail to pass millionaires tax, path to progressive income tax
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Chicago Contrarian
@ChicagoContrar1
Jun 11
Three weeks after the CTU failed to raise $8.5M from members, @rweingarten generously intervened and gave Stacy Davis Gates' IFT $226,037. Anyone want to wager some, if not all, of this cash winds up in the hands of CTU-backed candidates for Board of Ed. or Mayor Johnson?
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Jun 10
The Chicago-style hot dog is a global icon, but it is actually illegal to sell one from a street cart in the city of Chicago. While cities like Los Angeles and New York City have thriving, vibrant street food cultures that allow vendors to make a living, Chicago is drowning its
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Illinois Policy
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Jun 10
Illinois has now passed eight straight budgets under @GovPritzker. Each one included new taxes. This year it's a record $55.9 billion, with more than $800 million in tax increases: a $300M corporate hike through the net operating loss deduction, more decoupling from the federal
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Jeff Orr
@JeffO773
Jun 9
The Chicago Teachers Union sent their members to get arrested because of this TIF and now Brandon Johnson supports it.
Chicago DPD
@ChicagoDPD
Jun 9
CDC approved up to $201.6 million in TIF for $234.9 million in proposed public infrastructure and open space upgrades on a 31-acre site at Southport Avenue and Cortland Street in Lincoln Park as part of JDL Development and Kayne Anderson's Foundry Park mega-project.
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Illinois Policy
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Jun 9
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Lawmakers punt on housing supply as prices up 48% since 2019
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Illinois Policy
@illinoispolicy
Jun 9
Illinois is facing an unprecedented housing crisis, and Springfield just walked away from the solution. Homeownership is rapidly slipping out of reach for middle-class families across the state. Here is the harsh reality of the Illinois housing market today: >Home prices
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Jun 9
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Illinois budget includes $200,000 to redefine ‘low-income’
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Illinois Policy
@illinoispolicy
Jun 9
When poverty drops, you'd think that political leaders might celebrate. But in Illinois, our elected leaders interpret fewer low-income students as a threat to the state's bureaucracy. Lawmakers included $200,000 devoted to rewriting the definition of "low-income" as part of
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Illinois Policy
@illinoispolicy
Jun 9
ICYMI Illinois lawmakers pushed through a record-high $55.9 billion state budget at 4:13 a.m. It exceeds 3,700 pages, which means lawmakers had only hours after midnight to review it before the final vote. They also failed to pass a set of pro-housing reforms to cut red
Illinois lawmakers push through record-high $55.9 billion budget at 4:13 a.m.
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Illinois Policy
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Jun 5
.@GovPritzker explicitly said he wouldn’t give billions of dollars in taxpayer money to billionaire-owned sports teams. But when lawmakers pushed a $55.9 billion budget to his desk in the dead of night, he green-lit a completely different set of priorities. Illinois politicians
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