WJBC: Illinois among most unfair tax states
media mention“The Illinois system is the fifth most unfair in the nation, in terms of low-income people paying the highest proportion of their income in taxes vs. the wealthy paying the lowest, according to the Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy.
Executive director Matt Gardner explains the consequences: “When you have a tax system that decides, as Illinois has, it’s going to get its revenue from taxing low- and middle-income families, and it’s not gonna get it from taxing upper-income families, you’re not taxing where the income growth is, and that is a recipe for a revenue system that won’t be able to pay for needed services in the long run,” he said.”