TruthOut: Tax Time: How Corporations Are Cheating Schoolchildren

“Yet it’s the children and the taxpayers of Illinois who bear the burden of reform. Illinois has one of the “Ten Most Regressive State Tax Systems,” according to the Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy. In Chicago, Mayor Emanuel recently announced another $200 million in education cuts and then raised property taxes by a half-billion dollars, but the mainstream media repeatedly hushes up the corporate tax avoidance.”

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