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Thursday, November 21, 2024

Austin Berg and Joe Barnas, Illinois Policy Institute News


Illinois retirees file lawsuit over biased ballot language on progressive tax

By Austin Berg and Joe Barnas, Illinois Policy Institute |
The lawsuit challenges the language that will appear on the Nov. 3 ballot asking whether voters want to scrap Illinois’ constitutional flat tax guarantee – opening the door to a retirement tax.

These Illinois Halloween laws might scare you

By Austin Berg and Joe Barnas, Illinois Policy Institute |
Scraping through a few hundred municipal codes in Illinois didn’t turn up any trick-or-treat ordinances allowing for jail time. But fines associated with age limits, curfews, masks and more were aplenty.