Approximately 350 demonstrators, not including the many protesters riding in cars around the Chicago Loop, opposed Pritzker’s lockdown on May 1, 2020. The protest included many families, including women and children. Despite the large police presence, social distancing was not enforced, and the police made no effort to do so. 44 states are beginning to ease restrictions on our economic freedom.
A bi-partisan bill recently passed the Illinois House of
Representatives that would ban red light cameras in non-Home Rule
municipalities. The bill passed 84-4 on Wednesday and will now move to the
Illinois Senate.
“Banning unreliable red-light cameras in non-Home Rule
municipalities is a win for taxpayers, but Springfield can do better,” said Matthew
Schultz, Executive Director of Taxpayers United of America (TUA). “The primary
function of red-light cameras is to steal money from taxpayers with an indirect
tax. If the bill becomes law, bureaucrats in non-Home Rule municipalities will
be barred from imposing this tax.
“In fact,” added Schultz, “This provides a stronger reason
for taxpayers to reject Home Rule in the March 17 election.”
“As TUA founder and President Jim Tobin has always said, Home
Rule means home ruin. With Home Rule, local bureaucrats can run wild with tax
increases. Home Rule means bureaucrats are
no longer limited on how high property
taxes can be increased; it robs taxpayers of the right to directly vote on tax increases;
it puts a municipality on the path of creating a municipal income tax, and may
be the only way a local government can introduce red light cameras.”
“Taxpayers need to reject Home Rule referenda and the upcoming
state income tax increase in the election on November 3. Local and state
governments need to learn to live within their means like taxpayers. The only
way for taxpayers to get that message across is to defeat these huge tax
increase measures whenever they are on the ballot.”
Taxpayers in Glenview, IL, are mobilizing to defeat a
massive property tax increase benefitting Glenview School District 34. Glenview
SD34 demands from Glenview taxpayers a $119 million property tax increase which
is on their March 17 ballot.
The $119 million does not include interest that is also paid
with property taxes.
“Bond issues always
result in property tax increases,” said Jim Tobin, president of Taxpayers
United of America (TUA). “I have fought property tax increases for over 40
years, and won 432 taxpayer referenda victories against tax thieves.”
“Eighty percent of local taxes go to salaries and benefits
of government employees, and taxes now support much of the lavish, gold-plated
pensions they receive. If Glenview SD 34 reigned in exorbitant government employee
payouts, they wouldn’t need a property tax increase.”
“Taxpayers are always shocked when they are told just how much
government school employees get after retirement, especially when they realize
it’s their income and property taxes that are subsidizing the luxurious
lifestyles of former government employees.”
“For example, William Attea retired from Glenview SD34 at
age 57, and currently gets an astounding annual pension of $225,989. He has
received, to date, $4,088,864. His estimated lifetime pension payout is $4,547,622.”
“Another example is Dorothy Weber, who retired from Glenview
SD34 at age 57, and currently gets an annual pension of $217,958. Her estimated
lifetime pension payout is $5,813,396.”
“Instead of throwing a property tax increase on already
overburdened taxpayers, Glenview SD34 officials should instead reign in their
spending. Glenview taxpayers should reject the $119,000,000 property tax
increase on March 17.”
Taxpayers United Of America: (TUA). is a nonpartisan, 501(c)(4) taxpayer advocacy group. Founded June 27, 1976 in Chicago, Illinois by activist and economist Jim Tobin, TUA works on behalf of taxpayers to reduce local, state, and federal taxes. In the past forty years, TUA has saved taxpayers more than $200 billion n taxes and has become one of the largest taxpayer organizations in America. Check All posts.
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