https://www.thecentersquare.com/illinois/article_5e4ce212-987c-11ef-9793-27ef4cbcf8eb.htmlIllinois has to actually vote on whether or not there should be penalties for fucking with election workers?
The property tax question is pretty wild - I love this quote...
"Besides those three issues, voters need to remember ‘millionaires’ are not necessarily people in mansions. They often are mom-and-pop stores: 23,740 small businesses could be hit with a 61% hike in their marginal state income tax rate,” Cosso wrote.
"Should the Illinois Constitution be amended to create an additional 3% tax on income greater than $1,000,000 for the purpose of dedicating funds raised to property tax relief?"
This is some serious bullshit. I am a millionaire, but my *annual compensation* isn't in the millions. Unless you make over a million a year, this impacts you in no way - in fact you might have your property taxes lowered. Once a Mom and Pop store is profiting over a million a year, it's not a Mom and Pop anymore, and the measure is personal income tax and if Mom and Pop are pulling in over a million in profits, you can just make it not a pass through entity and pay the corporate rate, leave the money in the company.
My cousin - definitely not a millionaire let alone making a million a year - voted against it - "Why punish success!" I said "indeed, let's punish failure".
It's not even that progressive a measure, because the money collected would be used to lower property taxes - so only people with enough money to own property would benefit.
I guess these are all non-binding referendums anyway so it's just a circle jerk.
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