Update on the Tax Increase
From the Raise Your Hand for Illinois Public Education Coalition… Thanks to all of you who helped to send over 5,500 emails via our “No Taxation Without Education” campaign. Unfortunately, we got...
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From For The Good Of Illinois… “You can’t be for big government, big taxes, and big bureaucracy and still be for the little guy,” Ronald Reagan. Springfield just hiked your taxes while increasing...
View ArticleIll. Attny Gen to ‘Out’ Illinois Gun Owners
-By Warner Todd Huston Recently the Associated Press asked the Illinois State Police for its list of Illinois gun owners. The police refused saying that the release of the names and addresses of all...
View ArticleCriminal Element: Ill. Democrat Was Convicted Felon Before Being Elected
-By Warner Todd Huston It has been revealed that Illinois State Representative Robert Rita was a convicted felon before he ever ran for office for the fist time, a violation of state law. Being a...
View ArticleIllinois So Broke They Want to Sell Ads on License Plates
-By Warner Todd Huston You know things are bad when governments start selling things they “own.” The latest is the state of Illinois so over spent and in a budgetary hole that authorities are floating...
View ArticleIllinois Legislative Session Wrap Up
-By Warner Todd Huston So, once we get past the vague, gut feeling that not much was done in this past legislative session, we can look over the last several months and assess what Springfield done for...
View ArticleQuinn’s Big Cuts Amount to a Mere $8 Per Citizen
From the Illinois Policy Institute… Over the past week, there has been a lot of news coverage of the line item vetos Gov. Quinn made before signing the budget. Many have mischaracterized this budget as...
View ArticleAll Other Problems Solved, Chicago Democrats’ New Law Worried About Dogs...
-By Warner Todd Huston Having apparently solved all of the other debilitating problems Illinois is facing, Chicago Democrats have now turned their considered attention to making sure dog owners don’t...
View ArticleIllinois Tops Nation in Growth of Food Stamp Recipients
-By Warner Todd Huston President Obama’s home state of Illinois has gained a new distinction: it tops the nation in the growth of the number of its citizens on food stamps. According to the U.S....
View ArticleMercatus: Illinois Ranks in Bottom Among The Least Free States in the Nation
-By Warner Todd Huston One can’t be surprised that Obama’s home state of Illinois is one of the worst five states in the nation–like it is for most other things–in the Mercatus Center’s study of the...
View ArticleObama Library Starts Off With $100 Million in Corruption in Chicago
-By Warner Todd Huston Why is it not a surprise that the first moves to make Chicago the home of the Barack Hussein Obama Presidential Library are born in corruption? But I suppose it is a fitting way...
View ArticleIllinois One of the Worst GDP Growth in Entire Midwest
-By Warner Todd Huston Illinois has earned its spot as the state with the worst GDP in the entire Midwest. So, once again we find that Illinois turns out to be one of the worst states in the country...
View ArticleIllinois Worst in Midwest for Private Sector Job Creation
-By Warner Todd Huston I have been chronicling all the major failures of the once great state of Illinois and this week we have yet another one. A new tabulation of private sector job creation finds...
View ArticleWorst American Governor Pat Quinn Urges Obama to Bring all Illegals to Illinois
-By Warner Todd Huston Illinois Governor Pat Quinn has a great idea. He wants Obama to bring all the illegals to Illinois! In a state that sits at the bottom of every metric that makes a successful...
View ArticleNew Tone: Illinois Democrat Leader Says Republicans Would Hire ISIS Terrorists
-By Warner Todd Huston Last weekend Illinois GOP candidate for Governor Bruce Rauner took the ALS “ice bucket challenge.” When he did he urged Illinois Democrat leaders to join him in the challenge. In...
View ArticleIllinois Worst Again With Highest Home Foreclosure Rate in Nation
-By Warner Todd Huston A website that tracks bank foreclosures on homes across the nation finds that Barack Obama’s Illinois has once again become the worst state in the country for people losing their...
View ArticleFood Stamp Sign-ups in Obama’s Illinois Larger Than State’s Job Growth
-By Warner Todd Huston Obama’s home state of Illinois is struggling to break the Great Recession. A perfect example of this is seen in a recent report that shows that applications for food stamps in...
View ArticleEven in Blue Illinois the GOP Wave of 2014 Had an Impact, But The State is...
-By Warner Todd Huston The Republicans bumped up their gains in the Senate and the House of Representatives and also gained in Governor’s mansions across the nation and even deep, deep blue Illinois...
View ArticleBankrupt Illinois Slams Citizens With 32% Income Tax Hike, More to Come
-By Warner Todd Huston As the state of Illinois edges near becoming the first U.S. state to ever be rated junk bond status, the Democrat-controlled legislature of the bankrupt state of Illinois has...
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