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Ill. Alliance for Growth: Illinois Cigarette Tax Will Hurt More Than Just Smokers

April 30, 2010 by

From the Illinois Alliance for Growth

Lawmakers Should Consider Downstream Economic Impact on Border Communities; Jobs

(Springfield, Ill.) Don’t tax me, don’t tax thee…tax that man behind the tree has risen to the level of a colloquialism when used by opponents of cigarette tax hikes. It’s an informal way of saying that going after smokers is the majority picking on the minority. A quick google search of the phrase will prove the point.

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Ill. Alliance for Growth: Illinois Cigarette Tax Will Hurt More Than Just Smokers”

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NYT Article: Tea Partying in Chicago

February 19, 2010 by

-By Warner Todd Huston

The NYT had a nice write up on Chicago’s own American Liberty Alliance and its leader Eric Odom. This piece also discusses several other conservative efforts in and around Chicago. Groups like Hartland Institute, the Sam Adams Alliance, and Ed Lasky’s American Thinker also based out of Chicago.

It is interesting to note that some very strong conservative ideas are coming out of this bluest of blue states where politics is rough and disassociated from any control by voters. Odom makes that point, too, when discussing his move here from Nevada.

“You come from Nevada, where you have the entire Legislature on your cellphone,” Mr. Odom said. “It is a small government compared to here, where it is all union-run and it is a huge bureaucracy, and there is no way you’re going to get meetings with anybody.”

But there is hope, folks. With people like Ed Laskey, Odom and groups like the ALA, Sam Adams Alliance, Illinois Policy Institute, Illinois Alliance for Growth, and The Heartland Institute, as well as the local chapter of Americans for Growth we do have a fighting chance.
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Illinois Alliance for Growth Begins Challenges to Think Tanks Claims on Pension Borrowing Scheme

January 25, 2010 by

From the Illinois Alliance for Growth

Will the State Republican legislators and candidates who want to borrow nearly $20 billion for pensions please come forward?

Illinois Alliance for Growth President Greg Blankenship today called on Republican legislators, gubernatorial candidates and candidates for other state offices to come forward if they are truly interested in a state pension reform scheme that borrows nearly $20 billion today in exchange for 35 years of state government living on a “…strict diet…” of spending.
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Dueling Illinois Policy Groups: IAFG Smacks Around the IPI

January 22, 2010 by 1 Comment

-By Warner Todd Huston

The Illinois Policy Institute recently released its recommendations for how Illinois could fix its pension mess. Titled the Pension Funding and Fairness Act, the IPI assures the state that this is the answer to its pension problems. Despite that assurance, another Illinois policy group begs to differ. In an Illinois policy group head-to-head smack-down the Illinois Alliance for Growth* has published a critique of the IPI proposal resulting.

One of the proposals in the IPI plan is for Illinois to borrow $20 billion to tide the pensions over while the state legislature makes the needed adjustments to the pension laws. IPI Director Jim Tillman is saying that his plan is a case of “responsible borrowing” a claim that the IAFG finds risible.
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