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Chicago Teachers Union Threatens Strike: For the children or the tax dollars?
View as PDF CHICAGO — Chicago Teachers Union (CTU) President, Karen Lewis, and Vice President, Jesse Sharkey, warned CTU members this past Monday to begin saving at least twenty-five percent of their...
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Busting Tax Schemes for Decades
View as PDF Chicago—Taxpayers United of America (TUA) have fought against higher taxes, reckless spending, and government largesse for nearly forty years. As we look back at our decades of activism and...
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Don’t be Fooled by Pro-State Income Tax Propaganda
View as PDF Chicago—Illinois’ political bosses have a lot of bad news in store for taxpayers in 2016, no doubt, but the worst trick up their sleeves is the looming threat of confiscating vast sums of...
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45 Years of the Madigan Political-Industrial Complex
View as PDF Chicago—Although the Illinois Senate meets today, House members of the Illinois General Assembly won’t reconvene in Springfield until January 27, the day of Gov. Bruce Rauner’s (R) State of...
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CPS Financial Crisis is an Opportunity for Reform
View as PDF Chicago—Illinois’ Republican legislative leaders announced their plan to address the ongoing financial crisis in the Chicago Public Schools (CPS) at a news conference Wednesday morning,...
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Defeat of Income Tax Hike in ’97 Should Encourage Taxpayers in ‘16 (Video)
View as PDF Chicago—Taxpayers United of America (TUA) have fought against higher taxes, reckless spending, and government largesse for nearly forty years. As we look back on our decades of activism and...
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Jim Tobin: Fighting taxes is his only cause|August & September 1990|Illinois...
On a Saturday in June, Jim Tobin breezed to the door of House Speaker Michael J. Madigan’s home in Chicago, rang the bell and waited. The mission was simple. The state’s most famous tax protester...
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Crisis and Optimism in Rauner’s Second State of the State Address
View as PDF Chicago—Republican Gov. Bruce Rauner delivered his second State of the State address to the Illinois General Assembly today, beginning his second year as governor by outlining a number of...
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No Hope, Nor Change: The Failure of Barack Obama
View as PDF CHICAGO—President Barack Obama will address the Illinois General Assembly Wednesday afternoon, not far from the Old State Capitol building in Springfield, where exactly nine years ago the...
View ArticleGet Out and Vote!
View as PDF Tomorrow is the 2016 General Primary Election in Illinois and we need all taxpayers to get out and vote! There are bureaucrats all across the state trying to steal even more of our wealth...
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Madison Record|No exit strategy from Illinois budget standoff
Director of Operations for Taxpayers United of America’s, Jared Labell, had his letter to the editor about Illinois’ budget featured by Madison Record. To the Editor: Eight members of Illinois’...
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“Home Rule is Home Ruin” Presented by Jim Tobin (Video)
WOODSTOCK, IL – The Woodstock City Council has approved a special census with an eye toward certifying that the city has grown to more than 25,000 residents. If this is true, this would make Woodstock...
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TUA Celebrates 40 Years Protecting Taxpayers
View as PDF CHICAGO— Today marks the 40th anniversary of the founding of Taxpayers United of America (TUA), a Chicago-based tax watchdog group that has successfully fought taxes at the local, state,...
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Antiwar|I’m Paying Taxes, But What Am I Buying?
Taxpayers United of America’s Executive Director, Jared Labell, wrote an article for Antiwar about how war is a business and taxpayers pay for corporate interests. Acclaimed author and vice-president...
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Antiwar|Mr. Truman or: How I Learned to Start Worrying and Hate the Bomb
Taxpayers United of America’s Executive Director, Jared Labell, wrote an article featured on Antiwar.com regarding the 71st anniversary of President Truman’s devastating atomic bombings of Hiroshima...
View ArticleCPS Financial Crisis is an Opportunity for Reform
View as PDF Chicago—Illinois’ Republican legislative leaders announced their plan to address the ongoing financial crisis in the Chicago Public Schools (CPS) at a news conference Wednesday morning,...
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In the land of high property taxes, one village goes for broke
West Dundee Trustees Consider Plan to Make Village the Tax Capital of the United States View as PDF WEST DUNDEE — Officials in West Dundee, Illinois have proposed a plan which could make their...
View ArticleBread and Circuses: The F-35 Buzzes Over Chicago
View as PDF CHICAGO — If the city of Chicago were a house, the State would have condemned it as blighted property long ago, bulldozing its rotten wood and crumbling concrete structure into a pile fit...
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FDR Wanted Marines to Occupy The Chicago Tribune
View as PDF Chicago — Recent unprecedented disclosures of government malfeasance have forced Americans to confront unpleasant truths about the nature of our government. Americans do not trust the...
View Article“Safe Roads” Amendment Unsafe for Illinois Taxpayers
View as PDF Chicago – “Safe Roads Amendment” sounds so good. Who could possibly vote against it? However, the measure would be more aptly named, “Safe Revenue for Contractors and Unions” or “The Tax...
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