Christina Tobin of TUA speaks at minute 2:17 in the video below. TUA has no control over the content of this video, including advertisements.
Source: ABC News.
Source: ABC News.
Source: ABC News.
ILLINOIS- The property tax increase referenda pushed by government teachers in Riverside-Brookfield School District 208 and McHenry High School District 156 this past Tuesday, April 5, were soundly defeated by the taxpayers in both cities.
The taxpayers have spoken in landslide numbers: 76% voting no in Riverside-Brookfield, and 83.3% voting no in McHenry.
Within the past month, National Taxpayers United of Illinois (NTUI) has been organizing taxpayers to oppose the property tax increase referenda with a press conference in McHenry County with Bob Anderson and the McHenry Citizens Taxwatch, as well as first-class mailing hundreds of our members and distributing of “Vote No” flyers in Oak Park, Riverside Brookfield, and McHenry.
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PERRY COUNTY–A new report by the Illinois Taxpayers Education Foundation reveals that many Perry County retired government employees receive lavish, gold-plated pensions that far exceed average annual wages of workers in the private sector.
“These outrageous government-employee pensions are bankrupting the state,” said Jim Tobin, President of National Taxpayers United of Illinois (NTUI). “Gov. Patrick Quinn (D) just raised the state personal income tax 67%, all $6.8 billion taxpayer dollars of which is being used to fund the state’s appalling pensions. Only democrats voted in favor of the 67% income tax increase, and it is because of this that all democrats must be thrown out of office.”
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