UPDATE: It appears that the Governor has taken our advice. His new proposal for the capital spending bill would include diverting state sales taxes on gasoline into the spending program
CHICAGO— The president of Illinois’ largest taxpayer group urged lawmakers to use tax money collected from gasoline sales taxes for road repairs, not to pad lavish government pensions by funneling the money into the state’s general fund. Read more →
On July 1st Alex Voorman attended Tony Peraica’s tax protest at the Tompson Center in Chicago. The protest was designed to gain support for a repeal of the recently enacted 1% Cook County Sales Tax increase.
NTUI’s Alex Voorman was interviewed by CBS 2 Chicago regarding the $500 million Cook County sales tax increase.
The video can be seen here.