Illinois Senate Democrats muscled through a series of tax hike bills on party-line votes, endangering economic growth while offering no protections for middle-income families, according to State Sen. Jason Barickman (R-Bloomington).

The Illinois Senate voted today to ask the voters if the state should change the way it taxes income.

“A graduated income tax will make it easier to raise taxes and even easier to play games with our state’s Tax Code.

Remarks about castration as a way to reduce abortion numbers are out of character for the freshman Illinois lawmaker alleged to have made them by a Republican official, said one of her Democratic colleagues during a recent interview.

Illinois SB687 passed the state Senate on May 1.

Illinois SB664 passed the state Senate on May 1.

Illinois SB1839 passed the state Senate on May 1.

Illinois SB651 passed the state Senate on May 1.

Illinois SB171 passed the state Senate on May 1.

Illinois SB104 passed the state Senate on May 1.

Illinois SB690 passed the state Senate on May 1.

Illinois SB471 passed the state Senate on May 1.

Illinois SB689 passed the state Senate on May 1.

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The graduated income tax proposed by Governor JB Pritzker would enable future governors of Illinois and Illinois General Assemblies to enact any tax rate they want upon any specific slice of Illinois taxpayers. The authors of the Illinois Constitution of 1970 included specific ironclad language in that document that requires all income taxes imposed upon individuals to be at a single, flat, fixed rate. It is this provision of the Constitution that the proposal would repeal.

The following political organizations received the most campaign contributions in Metro Peoria during the week of 2019-04-08.

As Illinois Democrats continue to push for the so-called "Fair Tax" that has been called dishonest by state policy journal Wirepoints.com, state Rep. Ryan Spain apparently doesn't want to discuss it.

With news that he is now under federal review, newly elected Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker finds himself in dubious company.

The recent push by Illinois Democrats behind the so-called "fair tax" that one online news outlet calls dishonest brings to mind warnings earlier this year by a Republican state House representative that such a tax would further strain Illinois' already overburdened middle class.

The following political organizations received the most campaign contributions in Metro Peoria during the week of 2019-04-01.