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05.31.2009 1:20 pm

Illinois’ latest tax-hike plan: Up $600 for a $50k family of four

Post-Dispatch Springfield Bureau

UPDATE, 10:20 p.m. - This bill hasn’t been taken up in the House, and is apparently dead.

SPRINGFIELD, Ill. - An Illinois House committee this morning approved a tax hike bill that would boost the state’s income tax rate to 5…

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02.12.2009 3:55 pm

Ill. governor comes closer to answering question on taxes

Post-Dispatch Springfield bureau

SPRINGFIELD, Ill. - Gov. Pat Quinn, who has so far side-stepped questions asking specifically if Illinois could see an increase in its income or sales taxes, came a little bit closer to giving reporters a real answer.

“There’s no question we…

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04.15.2008 9:19 am

Anti-war groups take to St. Louis streets to mark Tax Day

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While the rest of us political junkies spend Tax Return Day contemplating who will report what in their campaign-donation reports also due today, some of opponents of the Iraq War plan to spend lunch time downtown conducting what they call a “penny…

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03.13.2008 10:55 am

Sinquefield expects to get involved in gov’s race, to open chess hall

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Multi-millionaire Rex Sinquefield, joined by aides and two professors who’ve done studies for his Show-Me Institute, stopped by the Post-Dispatch this morning to lay out some of his views to members of the paper’s Editorial Page.

Yours truly and cohort Jake…

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