Friday, June 19, 2009

Tony Peraica's open letter to the IL GOP

Illinois Review:
The people I represent in Cook County are suffering. Business bankruptcies have shot up 60%; mortgage foreclosures have gone from 12,000 to 50,000 per year; and, we are paying the highest sales and gasoline taxes in the country.

Unemployment in Cook County now stands at 9.5% -- and it’s above 40% for African-American males between the ages of 18-40.

And yet our legislators want to make the situation worse by doubling the state income tax, exploding the expansion of gambling, increasing taxes on everything from cigarettes, alcohol and candy to a host of other services.

Some of us on the cook county board have held firm in opposition to Todd Stroger’s tax increase because it’s the right thing to do. Now it’s time for the Illinois General Assembly to do the same by holding firm against the Democrat tax hikes.
Now the next question is how does he arrive at those figures I put in bold.

Via Newsalert!

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