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Reform for Illinois cheers election process

Reform for Illinois cheers election process

But more reforms necessary, says ED Alisa Kaplan, and wider ballot access granted in pandemic may not stick

Daily Debunk: Millionaires don't flee taxes

Daily Debunk: Millionaires don't flee taxes

Yet Fair Tax opponents persist in repeating ‘baseless canard’ about ‘tax flight’

Ted CoxOctober 21, 2020Illinois Fair Tax, Illinois Graduated Income Tax, Illinois Progressive Income Tax, Fair Tax Amendment, Greg Baise, Coalition for Jobs Growth and Prosperity, BGA, Quentin Fulks, Vote Yes for Fairness, Illinois Exodus, Tax Flight, Sue Rezin, Daniel Biss, Center for Tax and Budget Accountability

Daily Debunk: When taxes entice residents

Daily Debunk: When taxes entice residents

Good schools attract new residents, and what’s one of the main keys to public education?

Ted CoxOctober 9, 2020Daily Debunk, Illinois Public Schools, Illinois Public Universities, BGA, Stephen Mihm, Charles Tiebout, Illinois Exodus, Richard M. Daley, Rahm Emanuel, Chris Lain, Illinois Fair Tax, Illinois Flat Tax, Illinois Progressive Income Tax, Illinois Graduated Income Tax, Fair Tax Amendment, Bruce Rauner

Daily Debunk: Small-biz owners are no different from anyone else

Daily Debunk: Small-biz owners are no different from anyone else

If they clear $250K, they’ll pay a slightly higher rate under Fair Tax

Ted CoxOctober 6, 2020Illinois Fair Tax, Illinois Progressive Income Tax, Illinois Graduated Income Tax, Fair Tax Amendment, Illinois Small Businesses, Coalition to Stop the Proposed Tax Hike Amendment, Kenneth Griffin, Jeff Friedman, Home Plate Bar and Grill, J.B. Pritzker, BGA, AARP Illinois, U.S. Small Business Administration, Center for Tax and Budget Accountability, Ralph Martire, University of Illinois, J. Fred Giertz, Pat Quinn

Red-herring tax argument smells like dead fish

Red-herring tax argument smells like dead fish

Studies show little if any connection between taxes and people leaving the state

Trib pours SALT in tax wound

Trib pours SALT in tax wound

Does conservative paper really believe property taxes should be considered taxable income?

Ted CoxFebruary 11, 2020Chicago Tribune, Illinois Fair Tax, Illinois Progressive Income Tax, Donald Trump, BGA, Illinois Pension Crisis, SALT Deductions, Alden Capital, Alden Global Capital

Graduated income taxes are actually more stable

Graduated income taxes are actually more stable

Study from 2010s debunks threats that fair tax will be ‘manipulated’ to hit middle class

Ted CoxJanuary 30, 2020Illinois Fair Tax, Illinois Flat Tax, Illinois Graduated Income Tax, Illinois Progressive Income Tax, University of Illinois at Chicago, Government Finance Research Center, J.B. Pritzker, Bill Brady, Amanda Kass, David Merriman, Dan Proft, BGA, Kiannah Sepeda-Miller

Tax flight: Myth versus reality

Tax flight: Myth versus reality

Anti-taxers say the fair tax will prompt rich residents to flee state, but two studies find that prediction patently unfair

Ted CoxJanuary 16, 2020Illinois Fair Tax, Illinois Graduated Income Tax, Illinois Progressive Income Tax, Illinois Flat Tax, J.B. Pritzker, American Sociological Association, Illinois Population Loss, Tax Flight, Justin Fox, Will Guzzardi, Chuck Weaver, BGA, Dan Proft, Ralph Martire, Center for Tax and Budget Accountability

Who's vulnerable?

Who's vulnerable?

Impeachment passes House, with freshman Dems doing what they were elected to do: rein in Trump

Duckworth prompts feds to test Sauget

Duckworth prompts feds to test Sauget

Agency that detected Willowbrook cancer cluster to monitor Veolia incinerator

Ted CoxNovember 25, 2019Tammy Duckworth, Veolia North America Trade Waste Incinerator, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry, Sterigenics, Better Government Association, BGA, EPA, Sean O'Donnell, Willowbrook Cancer Cluster

BGA confirms Trump EPA cut staff, investigations

BGA confirms Trump EPA cut staff, investigations

Region 5 Great Lakes inspections have plummeted 60 percent under President Trump

Ted CoxNovember 18, 2019EPA, Donald Trump, BGA, EPA Region 5, Felicia Chase, Nicole Cantello, Jerry Costello, Cathy Stepp, Tammy Duckworth, Dick Durbin, Ethylene Oxide, Sterigenics

Analysis: 'It's not California here'

Analysis: 'It's not California here'

Conservatives keep threatening, without much justification, that the rich will be driven from the state by Gov. Pritzker’s ‘fair tax’

Ted CoxNovember 5, 2019Illinois Policy Institute, Wall Street Journal, California Taxes, Illinois Fair Tax, Elizabeth Cook, J.B. Pritzker, BGA, Jerry Brown, Illinois Progressive Income Tax, Illinois Graduated Income Tax

Lying Trump has 'pants on fire' on Chicago murders

Lying Trump has 'pants on fire' on Chicago murders

BGA finds Chicago actually outpaces nation in reducing gun violence

Ted CoxOctober 30, 2019Donald Trump, Eddie Johnson, Chicago Murders, Chicago Gun Violence, Better Government Association, PolitiFact Illinois, BGA, International Association of Chiefs of Police, Chicago Gun Laws, Ames Grawert

Illinois optimism rises, even as residents consider moving

Illinois optimism rises, even as residents consider moving

Taxes are everything to some people intent on running the state down

Ted CoxOctober 14, 2019Center Square, Illinois Policy Institute, J.B. Pritzker, University of Illinois at Springfield, Illinois Population Loss, Illinois Taxes, Illinois Fair Tax, Illinois Graduated Income Tax, Illinois Progressive Income Tax, SIU Carbondale, Paul Simon Public Policy Institute, BGA, Bill Brady

To 500 and beyond: End-of-summer review

To 500 and beyond: End-of-summer review

Farmers said, ‘Enough,’ the drumbeat for impeachment pounded, bills were signed into law, and Scabby the Rat faced off against Trump

Brady 'false' on fair tax, says BGA

Brady 'false' on fair tax, says BGA

GOP senator conveniently confuses middle-class, low-income taxpayers

Ted CoxJuly 9, 2019Bill Brady, J.B. Pritzker, Bruce Rauner, Illinois Fair Tax, Illinois Graduated Income Tax, Illinois Progressive Income Tax, BGA, Illinois Taxes, Illinois Tax Rates, Illinois Tax Brackets, Pat Quinn

Guzzardi, Weaver spar over population tax flight

Guzzardi, Weaver spar over population tax flight

Sen. Sims asks GOP lawmakers, ‘Where’s the plan?’

Ted CoxApril 15, 2019Will Guzzardi, Elgie Sims, David McSweeney, Chuck Weaver, J.B. Pritzker, Bruce Rauner, Pritzker Fair Tax, Illinois Progressive Income Tax, Illinois Graduated Income Tax, Illinois Property Taxes, Better Government Association, BGA, Illinois Pensions

'Jobs tax' debunked

'Jobs tax' debunked

Study of Illinois, neighboring states finds no connection between jobs, tax rate

Ted CoxApril 11, 2019Elizabeth Austin, J.B. Pritzker, Bruce Rauner, Illinois Fair Tax, Illinois Flat Tax, Illinois Progressive Income Tax, State Tax Rates, Illinois Jobs, Illinois Employment, Better Government Association, BGA, Ideas Illinois

Separatist legislator has 'pants on fire'

Separatist legislator has 'pants on fire'

BGA finds lies on government funding being spread by state Rep. Halbrook

Ted CoxApril 10, 2019Bruce Rauner, Brad Halbrook, Better Government Association, BGA, Paul Simon Public Policy Institute, SIUC, UIUC, Champaign News-Gazette, Illinois Gun Control, Illinois Abortion Rights, Illinois Immigration, Political Divide

Why can't a Democrat be more like a Republican?

Why can't a Democrat be more like a Republican?

At least when it comes to crafting — and sticking to — a compelling narrative on taxes

Ted CoxApril 10, 2019Illinois Policy Institute, IPI, J.B. Pritzker, Bernie Sanders, Illinois Fair Tax, Illinois Progressive Income Tax, Illinois Graduated Income Tax, Bruce Rauner, Richard Uihlein, Grover Norquist, Rupert Murdoch, Donald Trump, Lyndon Baines Johnson, Ronald Reagan, Better Government Association, BGA