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State legislature may consider whether to move to a graduated income tax rate, meaning those who earn more would pay more.
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The progressive tax could lower the marginal tax rate of 94 percent of the state’s taxpayers.
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It's clear that the state's budget crisis is a complicated problem with no quick fix.
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Today the Equity and Excellence Commission, appointed by U. S. Department of Education Secretary Arne Duncan to examine disparities in educational opportunities with a focus on systems of finance, will release the results of its 2-year investigation in a report: "For Each and Every Child." CTBA Executive Director Ralph Martire is a federal commissioner.
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LWV debate on the merits of the proposed Graduated Rate Income Tax Structure held at the North Suburban Library in Loves Park, IL with speakers Robert Evans, Ralph Martire, and IL State Senator Dave Syverson. Hosted by Sue Stephens from WNIJ, the NPR station in Dekalb, IL.
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If you want to believe "unaffordable" pension benefits promised to public sector workers like teachers and social workers caused Illinois' outsized, $83 billion unfunded pension liability, stop reading now. This column will only make your head hurt by disproving that canard with facts. If you'd rather understand both the true cause of that underfunding and how it actually strains the state's budget, then continue reading.
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Chicago, IL — Both President Obama and the Republicans who control Congress want to extend the Bush tax cuts in ways that will advantage affluent taxpayers over everyone else. However, according to a new analysis from the Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy (ITEP) and Citizens for Tax
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At the annual conference of the State University Annuitants Association, CTBA Executive Director Ralph Martire says state government doesn’t have a spending problem, but a tax problem. He shows how Illinois’ current tax system fails to tax as much as two-thirds of Illinois’ economic activity.
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CTBA issues joint release and comments on Good Jobs First findings that states lack sound, consistent policies to enforce job-creation and other performance requirements in economic development subsidy programs.