Commentary
More than five years after the failure of the so-called Fair Tax Amendment, Illinois politicians are still trying to eliminate the state constitution’s flat income tax protection and make it easier to raise state income taxes.
Illinois Politicians Still Want Boosted Tax Power
But higher taxes will lead to fewer new businesses and more Illinoisans heading for the exits.
Illinois State Capitol in Springfield, Ill., on June 26, 2021. Cara Ding/The Epoch Times
Joe Tabor
Author
Joe Tabor is the senior director of legal research at the Illinois Policy Institute. He graduated from Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University with a B.S. in aerospace engineering and received his J.D. from the University of Missouri School of Law.