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Posts tagged Daily Debunk
Closing argument: Yes for a better state
Fair Tax Amendment raises critical revenue by slightly hiking tax rate for those making more than $250K; it really is that simple
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Daily Debunk: Endless austerity
Fair Tax opponents are arguing about everything but a graduated income tax in a bid to hogtie state gov’t
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Daily Debunk: Flat tax drags on revenue
It deliberately makes tax hikes difficult, while Fair Tax taps economy where it’s expanding
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Daily Debunk: 'Opponents are blowing on all the familiar horns'
NYT editorial urges vote for Fair Tax Amendment
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Daily Debunk: 'Starve the beast'
State gov’t is not an animal, but a wide-ranging, complex service that needs to be maintained to do its job for the people
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Daily Debunk: Tax income where it's growing — with the wealthy
Some are profiting mightily during COVID collapse
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Ted CoxCoalition to Stop the Proposed Tax Hike Amendment, Daily Debunk, Illinois Fair Tax, Illinois Graduated Income Tax, Illinois Progressive Income Tax, Fair Tax Amendment, Illinois Flat Tax, Barack Obama, Federal Reserve, Jerome Powell, Ralph Martire, Center for Tax and Budget Accountability, Kenneth Griffin, Citadel Investments, Richard Uihlein, Sam Zell, Daniel Biss, Joseph Stiglitz
Daily Debunk: The 'conservative bugaboo' of 'tax flight'
St. Louis Post-Dispatch editorial backs Fair Tax Amendment
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Daily Debunk: General Assembly has the power — no more, no less
Springfield legislators already control tax policy
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Daily Debunk: When taxes entice residents
Good schools attract new residents, and what’s one of the main keys to public education?
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Ted CoxDaily Debunk, Illinois Public Schools, Illinois Public Universities, BGA, Stephen Mihm, Charles Tiebout, Illinois Exodus, Richard M. Daley, Rahm Emanuel, Chris Lain, Illinois Fair Tax, Illinois Flat Tax, Illinois Progressive Income Tax, Illinois Graduated Income Tax, Fair Tax Amendment, Bruce Rauner
Daily Debunk: The desperation stage
Billionaire Griffin spends $27M more to defeat Fair Tax Amendment, as IPI files 11th-hour nuisance suit
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Daily Debunk: The art of the non sequitur
Fair Tax Amendment opponents can’t help polishing their clouded crystal balls
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Daily Debunk: Women, minorities gain, not lose, in Fair Tax
Graduated income tax repairs decades of inequities
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Ted CoxIllinois Fair Tax, Illinois Progressive Income Tax, Illinois Graduated Income Tax, Fair Tax Amendment, Daily Debunk, Berkeley Research Group, J.B. Pritzker, AARP Illinois, Illinois Small Businesses, League of Women Voters of Illinois, Planned Parenthood of Illinois, Illinois NOW, Mujeres Latinas en Accion, Women's March Chicago, Women Employed, Jennifer Welch, Cherita Ellens, Maria Gonzalez, Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy, Illinois Flat Tax, Charles Ferguson, Predator Nation
Daily Debunk: Nix the fix
Naysayers cite state’s past ‘fiscal mismanagement’ — which is exactly the problem the Fair Tax targets
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Ted CoxIllinois Fair Tax, Illinois Graduated Income Tax, Illinois Progressive Income Tax, Fair Tax Amendment, Bruce Rauner, Donald Trump, Kenneth Griffin, Commercial Club of Chicago, Daily Debunk, Quentin Fulks, Vote Yes for Fairness, Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy
Daily Debunk: Tax foes shocked over 'new' threat
Pritzker actually warned of 20 percent tax hike in first budget address also introducing ‘a fair income tax’
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Daily Debunk: Don't believe the tripe
Misinformation, disinformation, and pure propaganda are out there on the fair tax, and everybody knows it
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Ted CoxIllinois Fair Tax, Illinois Graduated Income Tax, Illinois Progressive Income Tax, Daily Debunk, Chicago Federation of Labor, Bob Reiter, Fair Tax Amendment, J.B. Pritzker, Quentin Fulks, Vote Yes for Fairness
Daily Debunk: Government is not a business
Tying spending to economic growth is a terrible idea guaranteed to worsen downturns
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