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Daily Debunk: Flat tax drags on revenue
It deliberately makes tax hikes difficult, while Fair Tax taps economy where it’s expanding
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Ted CoxIllinois Fair Tax, Illinois Graduated Income Tax, Illinois Progressive Income Tax, Fair Tax Amendment, Daily Debunk, Greg Baise, Coalition for Jobs Growth and Prosperity, Illinois Flat Tax, Illinois Pension Crisis, Quentin Fulks, Vote Yes for Fairness, Sue Rezin, Barack Obama, J.B. Pritzker, Kenneth Griffin, Daniel Biss
Daily Debunk: Wheel of Billionaires
Vote Yes for Fair Tax launches website lampooning disinformation campaign funded by wealthy anti-taxers
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Ted CoxCoalition to Stop the Proposed Tax Hike Amendment, Vote Yes for Fair Tax, Vote Yes for Fairness, Sam Zell, Kenneth Griffin, Richard Uihlein, Billionaires Against Fair Tax, Citadel Investments, Daniel Biss, Quentin Fulks
Daily Debunk: Tax income where it's growing — with the wealthy
Some are profiting mightily during COVID collapse
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Ted CoxCoalition to Stop the Proposed Tax Hike Amendment, Daily Debunk, Illinois Fair Tax, Illinois Graduated Income Tax, Illinois Progressive Income Tax, Fair Tax Amendment, Illinois Flat Tax, Barack Obama, Federal Reserve, Jerome Powell, Ralph Martire, Center for Tax and Budget Accountability, Kenneth Griffin, Citadel Investments, Richard Uihlein, Sam Zell, Daniel Biss, Joseph Stiglitz
Daily Debunk: Fund schools, cut property taxes
Cook Assessor Kaegi says adequate education funding will ease pressure on property taxes
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Ted CoxIllinois Fair Tax, Illinois Graduated Income Tax, Illinois Progressive Income Tax, Fair Tax Amendment, Fritz Kaegi, J.B. Pritzker, Illinois Policy Institute, Quentin Fulks, Daniel Biss, Illinois Property Taxes, Andy Manar, Civic Federation
Daily Debunk: Millionaires don't flee taxes
Yet Fair Tax opponents persist in repeating ‘baseless canard’ about ‘tax flight’
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Ted CoxIllinois 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: Nothing is perfect
But Fair Tax Amendment, supporters say, is key first step to solving many state problems
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Ted CoxIllinois Fair Tax, Illinois Graduated Income Tax, Illinois Progressive Income Tax, Fair Tax Amendment, Quentin Fulks, Vote Yes for Fairness, J.B. Pritzker, Daniel Biss, Illinois Pensions, Illinois Rainy Day Fund, Illinois Flat Tax
Daily Debunk: Taxes are too damn high!
But on who, points out former Democratic governor candidate Daniel Biss
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Ted CoxIllinois Fair Tax, Illinois Graduated Income Tax, Illinois Progressive Income Tax, Fair Tax Amendment, Lincoln Forum, Union League Club of Chicago, Wintrust Bank, Ed Wehmer, J.B. Pritzker, Daniel Biss, Quentin Fulks, Vote Yes for Fairness, Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy, Income Inequality
Daily Debunk: The desperation stage
Billionaire Griffin spends $27M more to defeat Fair Tax Amendment, as IPI files 11th-hour nuisance suit
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Ted CoxDaily Debunk, Kenneth Griffin, Fair Tax Amendment, Illinois Fair Tax, Illinois Progressive Income Tax, Illinois Graduated Income Tax, Coalition to Stop the Proposed Tax Hike Amendment, Illinois State Board of Elections, Daniel Biss, Quentin Fulks, Vote Yes for Fair Tax, Vote Yes for Fairness, Rich Miller, Capitol Fax, Illinois Policy Institute, John Tillman, Jesse White, Susana Mendoza, John Bouman
Daily Debunk: Table scraps from billionaires
We don’t need the occasional bike path; we need billionaires like Ken Griffin simply to pay their fair share
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Ted CoxFair Tax Amendment, Illinois Progressive Income Tax, Illinois Graduated Income Tax, Illinois Fair Tax, Kenneth Griffin, Citadel Investments, Rahm Emanuel, Lori Lightfoot, Illinois State Board of Elections, Coalition to Stop the Proposed Tax Hike Amendment, Daniel Biss, SEIU Healthcare Illinois, Corporate Subsidies, Corporate Welfare, Martin Luther King, AIG, Great Recession
Unions, pols rally online for Fair Tax Amendment
‘We can vote for the change we want to see in Illinois,’ says Lt. Gov. Stratton, warning against statewide tax increase
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Ted CoxJehan Gordon-Booth, Fair Tax Amendment, Illinois Fair Tax, Illinois Progressive Income Tax, Illinois Graduated Income Tax, Juliana Stratton, Donald Trump, Joe Biden, Daniel Biss, J.B. Pritzker, Bob Reiter, Chicago Federation of Labor, Jesus "Chuy" Garcia, Tim Drea, Illinois AFL-CIO, Barack Obama, Ruth Bader Ginsburg
Flat tax: 'Subsidy for wealthiest Illinoisans'
Study backs Fair Tax Amendment, says current tax system worsens income inequality, ‘wealth gap’
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Ted CoxIllinois Fair Tax, Illinois Progressive Income Tax, Illinois Graduated Income Tax, Illinois Flat Tax, Fair Tax Amendment, Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy, Lisa Christensen Gee, J.B. Pritzker, Income Inequality, Donald Trump, Kenneth Griffin, Citadel, Daniel Biss, Tax Inequity, Racial Inequities
Government should invest in its people — literally
Biss, Pawar urge use of pension funds as ‘activist investor for the public good’
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