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Partisan politics infiltrating non-partisan local Illinois elections (and has been for some time now)

Posted in 220, Agendas, Barrington Education Association, Board of Education, Capitol News Illinois, Deception, Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI), Elections, Ethics, His Master's Voice, Open Meetings Act, Politics, Pritzker’s Rules of Order, Property Taxes, School Districts, Springfield, Taxes, Unions, What the Ficke (Bradford)?, Wirepoints on March 12, 2025| Leave a Comment »

Illinois Democrats backing candidates in new (not really) strategy to get involved in all elections

By Ben Szalinski and Bridgette Fox | Capitol News Illinois

SPRINGFIELD — It’s been just four months since the last election concluded, but another election is on the horizon in Illinois: the April 1 elections for school boards and municipal offices.

Though municipal and school board races in Illinois are nonpartisan, voters may see many of the same political themes that were hallmarks of races during the 2024 presidential election cycle. The Democratic Party of Illinois is applying many of the same tactics it uses in partisan elections to this year’s local races.

“We as the Democratic Party of Illinois should be defending Democratic values in every single election in nonpartisan and partisan elections alike, because all of these local offices have jurisdiction over super critical controls and we think our party has the best platform for governance,” Democratic Party of Illinois Executive Director Ben Hardin said.

The 2025 local elections are the second time that Illinois Democrats are getting involved in nonpartisan races. After recruiting more than 1,000 prospective candidates last year, the state party is supporting 270 candidates for a variety of local offices in all areas of the state.

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The party trained the candidates and attached them to “coaches” experienced in running Democratic campaigns. Candidates will also be supported by a six-figure advertising campaign by DPI in the coming weeks.

“I think our voters welcome the information,” Hardin said. “They want to know, and they need to know, who the aligned candidates are.”

It’s also part of the party’s strategy to be more active year-round.

“This is how the party operates now,” Hardin said. “We are not going back to closing up shop after an even-year midterm or presidential election, lying dormant for 18 months and then coming alive again for the next even-year general election.”

Read more here.

Editorial note: This publication strongly endorses incumbent candidates Steve Wang and Katie Karam, as well as that of candidate Deanna Stern, for election to the District 220 Board of Education in the April 1st Election.

Related: “So-called voter education group — League of Women Voters — says don’t attend, engage or watch Trump speech to Congress”

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A sample of trans-genderism taught in Illinois 4th-grade classrooms

Posted in 220, Barrington Education Association, Board of Education, Countryside Elementary School, District 220 referendum, Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI), Elections, His Master's Voice, League of Women Voters, Politics, Pritzker’s Rules of Order, Property Taxes, School Districts, Springfield, Unions, What the Ficke (Bradford)?, Wirepoints, WTF on March 10, 2025| 2 Comments »

By Ted Dabrowski and John Klingner | Wirepoints

Take a good look at the book recently read by a teacher to her 4th-grade students at my neighborhood public school in Wilmette. You’ll quickly understand why DEI, and trans-activism in particular, have become so objectionable and divisive, particularly in school settings. And why the backlash at the national level to remove such content from our schools, even among Democrats, has become so powerful.

The book that the Wilmette Central School teacher read out loud is called “It Feels Good to be Yourself.” The teacher begins by describing Ruthie, who at five years old determined that she was a he. Her younger brother was just three-and-a-half years old when he announced he was a he. Both kids inform their parents of the gender decisions they’ve made. The decisions are accepted without question.

The teacher reads on:

“You might feel like a boy. You might feel like a girl. You might feel like both a boy and a girl – or like neither. You might feel like your gender changes from day to day or from year to year. Your feelings about gender are real. Listen to your heart.”

Really? Day to day? To ten-year-olds?

As if that wasn’t enough, the book adds this: Doctors and your parents looked at your “body” and just guessed at your gender when you were born. “Maybe they got it right, maybe they got it wrong.”

It’s hard to reach any conclusion other than this one: This book is being read to 4th-graders only to create gender confusion among impressionable young minds. 

Here is a link to a Youtube reading of the book. I encourage you to stick with the six minutes it takes to get through the video.

By any measure, the book’s views are extreme to an overwhelming share of Americans. Normalizing these ideas to little kids in a public school setting – that gender can change day to day and year to year, and that little kids have self-determination – is an extreme proposition. Such ideas don’t belong in our schools.

Read more here, and please vote wisely on April 1st for District 220 Board of Education.

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So-called voter education group — League of Women Voters — says don’t attend, engage or watch Trump speech to Congress – Wirepoints Quickpoint

Posted in Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI), Elections, League of Women Voters, Look For The Union Label, Organizations, Politics, Pritzker’s Rules of Order, The Chicago Way, Unions, Wirepoints, WTF on March 5, 2025| 2 Comments »

“Empowering Voters. Defending Democracy.” League of Women Voters claims to serve those goals by educating voters.

But when it comes to one of the most important presidential addresses in memory on Tuesday night, just close your eyes and ears. That’s the League’s message, as you  can see in its Facebook post reproduced here. “DO NOT ATTEND, ENGAGE, OR WATCH THE STATE OF THE UNION,” say the champions of voter education.

More here.

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Willful indifference to cost: Illinois’ noncitizen healthcare scandal is worse than new audit show

Posted in Deception, Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI), Ethics, Immigration, Politics, Pritzker’s Rules of Order, Springfield, Taxes, Wirepoints on March 3, 2025| Leave a Comment »

Delia Ramirez (D-Chicago) on floor of Illinois House in 2020. | Source: State Journal-Register

By Mark Glennon* | Wirepoints

Last week’s report from the Illinois auditor general was shocking enough, but the background makes it far worse.

The audit shows $1.6 billion spent on noncitizen healthcare, far outstripping the state’s appropriations and estimates and often including recipients not eligible for the program. What the audit doesn’t detail, however, is brazen, wanton malfeasance in how it all got started. State government knowingly printed a blank check, payable by taxpayers. Cost didn’t matter.

It began with legislation championed by Delia Ramirez (D-Chicago), then a state representative who had been appointed by local Democratic leadership after resignation of her predecessor.

In May 2020, Illinois became the first state to provide healthcare for illegal immigrants. The initial coverage that Ramirez proposed, for those 65 and older, was “tucked in near the end of the 465-page budget implementation bill that passed the Illinois General Assembly late Saturday night,” as reported by the State Journal-Register at the time.

The program would cost just $2 million per year, Ramirez, said. That estimate, apparently pulled out of thin air, became the sole cost estimate relied on. We wrote about that in 2023, as did Capital News Illinois. No further cost estimate was made. The estimate was repeated blindly by program supporters. “When progressive lawmakers first pushed for the creation [of the program,” as Capitol News Illinois correctly reiterated last week, “officials relied on advocates’ $2 million cost estimate for the program’s first year.”

Gov. JB Pritzker signed the bill without his office doing any separate cost review.

But the cost of the program blew through that estimate in just the program’s first month of operation in 2021, That’s according to a closed-door presentation by the Illinois Department of Healthcare and Family Services to lawmakers given in 2023. The cost for the initial group of senior, noncitizen coverage was $188 million between March 2022 and February 2023, per that presentation.

Read more here.

*Mark Glennon is founder of Wirepoints.

Related: “Audit finds many were improperly enrolled in state health care program for noncitizens, while costs were vastly underestimated”

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Beyond the Nazi accusations. What you should know about Gov. Pritzker’s budget address

Posted in Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI), Politics, Pritzker’s Rules of Order, Property Taxes, Springfield, Taxes, Unions, Wirepoints on February 25, 2025| Leave a Comment »

By: Ted Dabrowski and John Klingner | Wirepoints

There were two big takeaways from Gov. J.B. Pritzker’s 2026 combined state of the state and budget address last week.

First was Pritzker’s use of a constitutionally-required speech to frame Trump and, by extension, his 70 million-plus supporters, as Nazis. “I do not invoke the specter of Nazis lightly,” Pritzker said, as he proceeded to equate the MAGA movement with Nazism.

Somebody forgot to tell Pritzker about Godwin’s Law – that when you invoke Nazis in an argument, you automatically lose. Wirepoints detailed Pritzker’s comments in a sister piece, Pritzker says he is fighting against Nazis in astounding speech, so we won’t go into more detail here.

The second big takeaway – and the focus of this piece – is how wide the gap has gotten between what the governor says he’s done for Illinois versus reality on the ground. Look beyond the spin and you’ll see that Illinois’ economic growth since he took office ranks nearly last nationally. Same for private-sector job creation. Educational outcomes have also worsened despite billions more in spending. All the while, Illinoisans’ tax burdens are going up.

This state is increasingly an extreme national outlier on most fiscal, economic and demographic issues that matter. The data is undeniable.

Unstoppable spending

Incessant increases in spending have had all kinds of negative consequences for Illinoisans, which we detail in the following sections. Gov. Pritzker and his Democratic supermajorities have spiked spending dramatically in recent years and their projections show they want to continue that spending into 2030. Just look at the graphic below.

In 2019, Illinois’ budget was just $40 billion. They pumped it up to $50 billion during covid – a whopping 25% increase in just four years. For 2026, Pritzker wants 10% on top of that, to $55 billion. And his budget projections take it to $63 billion by 2030.

Pritzker’s rationale for hiking spending in his first term was pandemic relief, though that much of that was needed due to the governor’s protracted lockdowns and one of the nation’s strictest mitigation regimes.

But covid and his three-year-long rule by executive order are now far in the rearview mirror. That emergency spending should have been reversed two years ago, but it never happened. Instead, Human Services spending in 2026 will be up nearly 100% over 2019. Government Services will be up 50%. The bloat continues.

Massive spending growth means no tax relief

The flip side of all that spending is Illinois’ lost competitiveness. While Illinois was increasing budgets and raising taxes of all kinds – a billion alone just last year – 29 other states were busy cutting their income taxes.

Some states dumped their progressive tax schemes altogether and moved to far lower flat tax rates. Others dropped their top marginal rates, while yet others flattened their progressive schemes and reduced the total number of brackets. That’s especially true of our neighbors. Here’s what they’ve done since 2019:

  • Iowa scrapped its progressive tax scheme and moved to a flat tax in 2025. Its top marginal rate of 8.98% is gone and in its place is a flat tax of 3%.
  • Kentucky, too, ended its progressive tax structure and went to a flat 5% rate in 2019. Since then, it has lowered its rate again to 4%.
  • Indiana cut its already-low flat rate from 3.23% to 3.00%.
  • Missouri’s top marginal tax rate in 2019 was 5.4%. It’s now 4.7% for income above $9,191. For all practical purposes, it’s now a flat tax.

Every one of Illinois’ neighbors now has a lower top rate than Illinois except Wisconsin.

Illinois has also done nothing to address the state’s ballooning property taxes, already the nation’s highest. On the contrary, Illinois lawmakers have added on more mandates and more costs, inflating property tax bills across the state.

When Pritzker took office in 2019, total property tax revenues totaled $32.9 billion. By 2023, they jumped to $38.5 billion. Today, the total is sure to be over $40 billion and they’ll keep going up by $1 to $2 billion for the next few years.

Read more here.

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Nation’s Report Card results are in: Illinoisans spend billions more on education, yet 2024 reading results are still below 2019 levels

Posted in 220, 300, Barrington Education Association, ComEd Four, Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI), Economy, Education, Look For The Union Label, New Normal?, Politics, Pritzker’s Rules of Order, Property Taxes, Real Estate, School Districts, Springfield, Taxes, Transparency, Unions, What the Ficke (Bradford)?, Wirepoints on January 30, 2025| Leave a Comment »

By Ted Dabrowski and John Klingner | Wirepoints

The Nation’s Report Card that measures how well kids across the country are learning has just been released for 2024. The results for Illinois aren’t good. Here are some top level findings:

  • Just 9% of black 8th-grade students are proficient in math.
  • Only 20% of Hispanic 4th-graders are proficient in math.
  • Just 37% of white 4th-graders are proficient in reading.
  • Overall reading and math proficiencies statewide in both 4th and 8th grades were either the same or down compared to pre-covid 2019.
  • Statewide 4th-grade reading proficiency for all students is down to just 30%, five percentage points lower than in 2019.

The National Assessment of Educational Progress, or NAEP, tests children across the country every two years to assess their reading and math skills. It’s the best apples-to-apples test for comparing education results across states. Nationwide, reading and math results continued to decline in 2024.

Illinois’ NAEP results are yet another indicator that the state’s education system is failing students. Illinois is pouring billions more into education than before the pandemic – $44 billion in 2024 vs. $35 billion in 2019 – yet all the evidence points to that money being wasted. Fewer Illinois students can read proficiently today than could five years ago.

The Illinois State Board of Education downplayed the state’s poor NAEP outcomes by pointing out that Illinois’ 2024 results were slightly up compared to 2022, and that the state’s proficiencies are largely in line with the rest of the country.

But while both are true, what the state board doesn’t mention is just how poor those results continue to be, or that Illinois’ reading and math proficiencies still haven’t returned to their pre-covid levels. Overall, only about a third of Illinois students are proficient in reading and math.

Illinois’ results are even worse than they appear considering just how much more the state spends on education compared to most of the nation. 2022 Census data shows Illinois spent about $21,700 (local, state and federal dollars) on education per student – the 10th-most in the country.

Illinois spends $2,000 to $8,000 more per student than all other Midwestern states, yet its 4th-grade reading results aren’t any better than theirs. Take Indiana for example. 34% of 4th graders in the Hoosier State are proficient in reading, yet the state only spends $14,900 per student, nearly $7,000 less than what Illinois spends.

Illinois’ excessive spending is one of the major reasons why its residents pay the nation’s highest property taxes and one of the country’s biggest overall tax rates. Judging by the educational results of other states, Illinois could return billions of dollars to taxpayers without negatively impacting reading scores.

Read more here.

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Open borders and sanctuaries are driving Illinois’ migrant chaos, not Trump’s deportations

Posted in 220, Barbarian Migrants in Busses at the Gate, Board of Education, Crime, Deception, Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI), Economy, His Master's Voice, Immigration, One Barrington Hills, Politics, Pritzker’s Rules of Order, Property Taxes, School Districts, Taxes, What the Ficke (Bradford)?, Wirepoints on January 25, 2025| Leave a Comment »

By Ted Dabrowski and John Klingner | Wirepoints

“Chaos and confusion.” That’s what Gov. J.B. Pritzker claims President Trump is creating as he plans to deport from America illegal immigrants with criminal records. Some 530,000 illegal immigrants reside in Illinois, the nation’s fifth-most according to the Center for Immigration Studies. Pritzker says Trump might initially target as many as 2,000 immigrants in Illinois for deportation.

Many Illinoisans will be surprised by Pritzker’s claim given the chaos he’s created with his own staunch support of open borders and Illinois’ sanctuary status. It’s been nearly three years of daily disorder in Illinois, largely in Chicago. Streams of incoming buses, full of illegal immigrants. Overrun police stations. Immigrant camps. Disenfranchised residents. Public confrontations between the mayor and the governor. Even more crime. It’s been ugly.

Then there are the costs of Pritzker and his Democratic supermajorities’ support for sanctuary policies. It will be some time before we can properly account for all the spending, but it, too, contributes heavily to the chaos. Billions are being siphoned away from Illinois’ actual residents and directed toward migrants. That’s money that could have gone to more services for Illinois’ most vulnerable citizens, or to lower taxes, or to smaller budget deficits.

Take spending on immigrant healthcare alone. A Wirepoints review of IDHFS’ most recent reports shows the state has spent a cumulative $1.5 billion since 2022 on the approximately 42,000 illegal immigrants who’ve enrolled in state-funded programs called Health Benefits for Immigrant Seniors (HBIS) and Health Benefits for Immigrant Adults (HBIA). Those programs don’t qualify for a federal Medicaid match, so the full cost is borne by Illinois taxpayers.

That’s on top of the healthcare spending on “asylum seekers” who are separately eligible for Medicaid. Wirepoints was not able to obtain those costs.

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There’s also spending on housing, transportation, legal services and more for the asylum seekers. We estimated those costs earlier last year and they add up to hundreds of millions more.

Read more here.

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Illinois badly needs disruption. Trump will deliver some, but most must come from everyday Illinoisans

Posted in 220, 300, Clown Car, ComEd Four, Commodius Maximus, Deception, Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI), Education, Elections, Fat Bastard, Immigration, Look For The Union Label, OP/Ed, Perjury, Politics, Pritzker’s Rules of Order, Property Taxes, Saint Anne Parish School, School Districts, Springfield, Taxes, Unions, What the Ficke (Bradford)?, Wirepoints on January 21, 2025| Leave a Comment »

By Ted Dabrowski and John Klingner | Wirepoints

Love Trump or hate him, he won on an agenda to disrupt the country’s broken border, the economy, and how Washington itself works. But even as many Trump detractors soften their stance against him, agreeing that too much has gone too far in America, Illinois is going the other way. Gov. J.B. Pritzker and leaders of the Democratic party are working hard to Trump-proof Illinois. They, their public sector union allies and a friendly media don’t want any disruption of their ironclad control over Illinois, never mind the continuing decline of the state.

Now, we’re not arguing for Trump to come and directly target Illinois for disruption, though we’ll benefit from much of what the president does at the federal level. Disruption at the border, great. We’ll happily accept the relief. Disruption of the massive, distortionary green energy subsidies, also great. Illinoisans’ energy costs have been jumping of late. Disruption of the rules and actions that limit free speech and force feed DEI on our institutions. Absolutely. Good riddance to the cancel culture of the past few years.

But the real disruption Illinois needs is local and Illinois-specific. We don’t need Trump for that. We don’t need the feds. We don’t need outsiders. What we need is for us to do it ourselves. Ordinary Illinoisans disrupting what’s wrong with our state. Dismantling the laws that now make Illinois an extreme outlier on the many fiscal, economic and demographic issues that matter most.

That disruption starts with clawing back the extreme powers that state legislators have given the public sector unions over the last few decades – in exchange for support at the ballot box. There’s perhaps no other state in the country where the politicians and the public unions are more intertwined than Illinois. Take Chicago, where the unions and the politicians have become one and the same: Brandon Johnson is a CTU boss, the head of Chicago Public Schools and the Chicago mayor all in one.

It’s gotten so bad that Illinoisans are now subservient to their public servants.

How about disruption at Illinois’ failed schools, where 1.1 million of the state’s public school children can’t read at grade level? We’ve written ad nauseam about how Illinois’ education system gave up long ago on ensuring kids learn how to read and do math. It’s not an exaggeration, as we wrote recently in Fresh data: Illinois officials graduate record 88% of students despite tragic literacy, numeracy rates.

The disruption must be 100% universal school choice, like what’s happening all around Illinois. Universal choice means any family – of any race and any means – that wants to send their kid to a school of their choice can access an $8,000-$10,000 voucher or an education savings account. Imagine a single mom in Decatur being able to take her kid out of the Decatur Public Schools, where just 10% of all kids read at grade level, and to try instead a private school obsessed with reading and learning.

Read more here.

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A bit of Chicago truth-telling: Actuaries warn of insolvency, businesses fear crime

Posted in Crime, Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI), Look For The Union Label, Pension Funding, Politics, Preckwinkle's Rules of Order, Unions, Wirepoints on January 10, 2025| Leave a Comment »

By Ted Dabrowski and John Klingner | Wirepoints 

Imagine you work for a major company that’s looking to expand its footprint somewhere in the country. The company can go anywhere, and so you look at booming cities in Florida, Texas and a host of other states in the South. And of course, you can’t ignore the old standbys, including Chicago.

But you then see two stories that rapidly dissuade you from considering the Windy City.

That was the reality for any business person reading the news last week. Two articles separately highlighted the city’s overwhelming debt and crime problems, with two paragraphs in two important documents giving particular pause.

The first paragraph was tied to a New York Times article by Andrew Biggs, titled  “What’s the matter with Chicago?”, in which he said, “the word bankruptcy has been hanging over Chicago like a storm cloud about to burst.”  

Part of his evidence for bankruptcy was the city’s own pension actuaries warning of “potential insolvency” for the city’s biggest pension system. The Municipal Employees’ Annuity and Benefit Fund is just 22% funded and has one of the poorest liquidity positions in the country.

In its letter to the pension fund’s board members, the actuary wrote: 

“Given the low funded ratio and the expected timing of employer contributions, the Fund is still at risk of potential insolvency if an economic recession or investment market downturn were to occur in the near term.”

It’s not just the municipal fund that’s in trouble. Chicago’s three other city-run pensions are in equally bad shape, and so is the pension fund for Chicago teachers. Adding up all their debts, Chicago has $53 billion in unfunded pensions. It’s one of the big reasons the city has the worst credit rating in the nation.

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The safety of employees and customers is another key consideration. Unfortunately for Chicago, companies looking to attract investment are being forced to acknowledge the risks of the city’s crime problem

Crain’s reported that Bally’s, the company building the city’s first casino, officially expressed, in its $250 million stock offering documents, a concern to potential investors about crime’s potential impact on its future revenues:

“Business interruptions in Chicago due to crime or civil unrest could adversely affect us. Our business and our assets are planned to be primarily located in Chicago, Illinois, a city which has recently experienced very high levels of criminality and civil unrest. Heightened criminality or the perception of danger among our customers, and events of civil unrest, at or in the vicinity of any of the facilities that we operate and intend to operate, including our temporary casino and our permanent resort and casino, could result in a decline in customer traffic and spending patterns, which would result in a decline in revenue.”

It’s understandable why Bally’s would be so concerned and why it would warn potential investors. 

Chicago was the nation’s homicide capital for the 13th year in a row in 2024. Even with an 8% drop in murders last year, Chicago’s homicide rate remains nearly five times that of New York City (21.5 vs. 4.5 murders for every 100,000 residents) and 3.1 times higher than Los Angeles’ (21.5 vs. 7.0). And the fact that violent crime continued at a near-six year high last year serves as a clear warning to any business considering locating here.

Read more here.

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As Illinois politicians keep pushing progressive tax schemes, other states keep dumping them. Louisiana is the latest.

Posted in Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI), Politics, Pritzker’s Rules of Order, Property Taxes, Springfield, Taxes, Wirepoints on January 7, 2025| Leave a Comment »

By Ted Dabrowski and John Klingner | Wirepoints

The push for a progressive tax is back in Illinois, just four years after being rejected soundly by voters. Its proponents say Illinois needs a more “modern” taxation scheme. That we need a “fair” tax. That we need “progress.”

Those arguments fall flat given what’s happening across the country. Since 2022 alone, eight states have dumped progressive tax schemes in favor of flat tax rates, with Louisiana joining the list just last month. The Pelican State dropped its three-rate progressive structure in favor of a flat 3% going forward. The other seven states to move to a flat tax since 2022 are North Carolina, Kentucky, Mississippi, Arizona, Idaho, Georgia, and Iowa.

Massachusetts (2023) was the lone state to move the other way, becoming the only state to adopt a progressive tax since Connecticut did nearly three decades ago.

The move to flat income tax structures reflects the effort by states to become more competitive economically as well as to offer tax relief to its residents. Some states go even further and refuse to tax incomes at all. Nine states now have zero income tax rates, including high-GDP growth states Florida, Texas, and Tennessee. 

Given Illinois’ worsening economic, fiscal and demographic position nationally, any ideas of a move to a progressive tax must be soundly rejected once again by its residents. 

The “flattening” of income taxes goes beyond just flat tax states. Many progressive tax states are decreasing their number of brackets in an effort to simplify their tax structure. Most notable is Ohio, which once boasted nine tax brackets in 2010. It’s now down to just two brackets, both with rates below 3.5%. It’s effectively become a flat-tax state.

And other states, like neighboring Missouri, are also practically flat tax states. The Show-Me state applies its top income tax rate of 4.7% to all income above just $8,911. That’s even lower than Illinois’ flat tax rate of 4.95%.

The move by other states toward flat and flatter tax structures is a real problem competitively for Illinois. Illinois’ flat income tax has historically been the state’s only tax-positive feature, considering it’s home to the nation’s highest property tax rates and the 2nd-highest gas taxes. Whatever advantage Illinois has had from its flat tax is being eroded as more and more states go flat.

That’s particularly true at Illinois’ own borders. Indiana has dropped its flat tax rate to 3.0%. Kentucky’s flat rate is down to 4.0%. Michigan is at 4.25%. Iowa has its new flat tax at 3.8%. Even progressive-tax Wisconsin has been lowering its rates, increasing its competitiveness. 

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