Tax Accountability Announces 2012 Endorsements
View release as a PDF Chicago—Today, Tax Accountability, the political action arm of Taxpayers United of America (TUA), announced its Illinois candidate endorsements for the November 6, 2012 general...
View ArticleGold Found in Springfield, IL!
View release as a PDF Springfield—Taxpayers United of America (TUA) today released the results of a new pension study for the Illinois General Assembly, Springfield municipal government employees,...
View ArticleWilmette School District 39 Continues to Mislead Public, Cover Up Illegal...
View release as a PDF WILMETTE, IL – Despite a recent change to the property tax code that clarifies how property tax increases are calculated, Wilmette School District 39 is choosing to continue its...
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Vote No on Golf School Dist. 67 Property Tax Increase Referendum – Again!
View as PDF CHICAGO—Taxpayers United of America (TUA) is working with taxpayers in Golf School Dist. 67 to oppose the district’s property-tax-increase referendum that will appear on the district’s...
View ArticleLincoln Brutalized the Country and Shredded the Constitution
View as PDF Up until Lincoln’s war, the states assumed they had the right to leave the Union, and, in fact, they did have that right. Neither the 1777 Articles of Confederation nor the 1789 U.S....
View ArticleTax Fighter Chris Jenner Earns Endorsement from TA in McHenry County College...
View Release as PDF Chicago – Tax Accountability (TA), the political action arm of Taxpayers United of America (TUA) has endorsed Chris Jenner in his bid for McHenry County College Board. “Known as a...
View ArticleTaxpayers Win Big in April 9 Election!
View Release as PDF Chicago – Taxpayers United of America (TUA) helped local activists defeat 4 more property tax increase referenda. This makes our Illinois property tax increase referenda victories...
View Article200 ADDITIONAL IL STATE POLICE WILL COST TAXPAYERS $1.5 BILLION
View as PDF CHICAGO—Ill. Gov. Patrick Quinn’s proposal to add roughly 200 additional state police will cost Illinois taxpayers $1.5 billion, conservatively, over the troopers’ expected lifetime—a cost...
View ArticleVote ‘No’ on Knox Community Schools’ Property Tax Increase Referendum!
View as PDF CHICAGO—Taxpayers United of America (TUA) is working with taxpayers in Indiana’s Knox Community School District to oppose the district’s property-tax-increase referendum that will appear on...
View Article95% of Illinois Taxpayers Held Hostage by State Pension Cartel
View as PDF Chicago –Pension reform could be easy if there were no government-union bosses — and the votes they deliver — according to Taxpayers United of America (TUA). “The entire State of Illinois...
View ArticleIllinois’ Corporate Income Tax is 9.5% – Fourth Highest in US!
View as PDF The Illinois state corporate income tax is not 7% as some politicians, columnists and organizations have erroneously stated, but is actually 9.5%, according to the president of one of the...
View ArticleTax Accountability Pres. Endorses Canceling Gov. Debt to Itself
View as PDF CHICAGO—The President of Tax Accountability, economist, former Federal Reserve Bank examiner, and legendary tax fighter Jim Tobin, today endorsed the plan by U.S. Rep. Alan Grayson (D-9,...
View ArticleChicago Speed-Trap Cameras ‘Discriminatory and Racist’
View as PDF CHICAGO—The head of one of the nation’s largest taxpayer organizations today called Chicago’s plan to install more than 100 speed-trap cameras in the city “discriminatory, racist and...
View ArticleRed-Light Cameras Rake In Money For Cities As They Increase Accidents
View Release as PDF CHICAGO—Red-light cameras are a scam whose only purpose is to generate millions of dollars for cities and towns, and, furthermore, actually increase accidents, not decrease them,...
View ArticleWisconsin Government Pension Multimillionaires Protected by Secrecy Law
View Release as PDF Madison—Taxpayers United of America (TUA) today released the results of its study of the Wisconsin State, University of Wisconsin, Madison Municipal, Dane County, and Dane County...
View ArticlePower Structure Turns Back Riverside-Brookfield School District 208...
View Release as PDF CHICAGO—The president of Taxpayers United of America (TUA) condemned the unresponsiveness of the legal system in Illinois, which denied an appeal by taxpayers who sued...
View ArticleTax Breaks for Illinois’ Biggest Employers Cost Taxpayers Dearly
View Release as PDF CHICAGO – Illinois’ effective corporate income tax rate of 9.5% is contributing to the state’s financial woes, according to the president of Taxpayers United of America. “Illinois...
View ArticleIllinois’ Proposed Pension ‘Reform’ is a Rotten Deal for Taxpayers
View as PDF CHICAGO—The so-called “pension reform plan” being pushed through by Ill. Sen. Pres. John J. Cullerton (D), Ill. House Speaker Michael J. Madigan (D), Senate Minority Leader Christine...
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Kane County Taxpayers Fight Back
View Release as PDF North Aurora – Kane County taxpayers are fighting local tax expansion and property tax increase referenda with the help of Taxpayers United of America (TUA) and Kane Cares About...
View ArticleTaxpayers Fight Back on Local Property Tax Increases
View Release as PDF Chicago – Illinois taxpayers are fighting local tax expansion and increase referenda with the help of Taxpayers United of America (TUA). TUA is helping activists in Johnsburg SD 12...
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