Center for Tax and Budget Accountability: Issue Brief: Why Taxation in Illinois is Unfair

Tax policy is by its nature a contentious subject. In the end, individuals pay different proportions of their incomes in taxes to fund public services and a completely different matrix of individuals used those services. Given this dichotomy, establishing a definition of what constitutes the most fair way to levy taxes that is acceptable to everyone would be quite the difficult task.

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