Illinois

Of the states that have a state income tax, where did you suppose Illinois ranked prior to Quinn's increase?









Drop. Dead. Lowest.

For decades we had the lowest of those state income taxes. Even when it was raised to 5%, we were still well below the national average.

How many times did we hear Quinn, any other Democrat or the media recite this fact? As I recall the exact number was zero.

Remember Wisconsin governor barnstorming the area saying he would steal business from us? Wisconsin's state income tax was still higher than Illinois'! Again, nobody pointed this out.


Sometime after the tax had fallen off the news cycle, I asked one of the biggest complainers I knew about it. He asked, "when is it going to begin?"

I replied, "it started two months ago. And you didn't even notice."

Just as nobody noticed when it dropped down to 3.75%. And nobody noticed when the Chicago sales tax decreased by a fraction of a percent last year.


There is such a huge disconnect between reality and perception when it comes to taxes. And Democrats absolutely get the raw end on the perception side.