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Coming to a State Near You: Illinois Brought in Record Dollars from Entertainment Industry Last YearRobots from space attacked Chicago, blowing up buildings and vaporizing residents as they ran through the streets. A mad villain flipped a semi-trailer…
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Guess what? State tax cuts don’t improve economic growth.No, that’s not an April Fool’s Day zinger.Rather, it’s the conclusion of a report issued last…
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Taxes suck.That, it seems, is the only truism. Nobody wants to render unto Caesar. But, at least in Illinois, Caesar needs to get re-elected, and so stuff…
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It is an example of a measure that might not affect many people.An Illinois lawmaker says Olympic athletes who win medals shouldn't have to pay state tax…
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Has the time come to overhaul Illinois’ venerable (outdated?) revenue structure?The question is more than academic, given the daunting challenge for Gov.…
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Although the search for a way out of the state’s public pension mess has been the focal point in Springfield for the past two years, it’s not the only…
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Is it worth it to leave one state for another due to taxes? The National Center for Policy Analysis, a non partisan public policy research group,…
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A year after Gov. Pat Quinn signed a bill aimed at collecting sales tax from online retailers, the state is still struggling to get revenues from sellers…
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At the hub of the state's bureaucracy, Central Management Services is big business. And more and more often, more and more of that business is going on…
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Save the golden goose: Way to reduce outsourcing of American jobs - revise the nation's tax policiesMaytag's recent decision to close its plant in Galesburg and send a major portion of the work 1,600 Illinoisans had been performing to a new factory in…