Legislation introduced by House Speaker Michael Madigan, D-Chicago could potentially heist a couple of billion dollars due local governments, from inheritance taxes to corporate personal property replacement taxes, to help the state reduce their underfunded teacher retirement system.
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Madigan’s plan calls for tapping into a 2.5 percent tax on corporations, called the personal property replacement tax. The tax is collected by the state and the distributed to local governments.
Under one of Madigan’s options, $1.4 billion that currently is earmarked for all forms of local governments, from tiny library districts to cities, would instead be diverted to teacher pensions.
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Many doubt the need for Voter ID and claim there is no evidence of massive voter fraud - and that Voter ID is simply a means to disenfranchise minority and elderly voters. Others have suspected for years that non-citizen voters are participating in our elections.
Now Florida is stepping up to clear their voting rolls of illegal voters. Voter ID is a big issue in Florida where a potential 180,000 non-citizens may have registered to vote simply by checking a motor voter registration check box when obtaining their driver’s license.
Obviously, only citizens are supposed to be checking the box under oath, but that …
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An Associated Press article on the financial problems of Greece and whether the country should abandon the euro rather than implement the austerity programs demanded by those bailing out the Greeks, failed to report the underlying problem – the Greek people’s entitlement mentality.
The Greeks have grown to acccustomed to their socialist’s programs paid for by someone else and revolt against any austerity measures proposed by those who are footing the bill.
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There have been two and a half years of bailouts, on top of broken promises by Greece to reform. The result is a fifth year of recession and, this
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An insider report from Newsmax.com shows that Americans will pay more in taxes this year than they do for food, clothing and shelter combined, clearly demonstrating just how much government is growing.
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In 1929, Americans paid $10.1 billion in taxes while outlays for food, clothing, and shelter totaled $41.6 billion.
The cost of those essentials surpassed tax collections every year after that until 1981, when the $858.3 billion paid in taxes narrowly surpassed the $854.4 spent on food, clothing, and shelter.
Total outlays for taxes in 2012 will be about $4.04 trillion, which is $152 billion more than Americans will
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Will the Ten Commandments be reduced to six in a Roanoke Virginia school? A federal judge made that suggestion to try and end a longstanding legal battle brought by a parent of a student, of course, backed by another secularist organization, the ACLU.
Narrows High School in rural Giles County outside Roanoke has displayed the Ten Commandments for years, along with other documents until a parent sued requesting separation of church and state.
A federal judge this week suggested the school remove the first four commandments that clearly refer to God and the Sabbath and keep the six commandments that mention stealing, murder and …
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