We need tax brackets! Join us! Here is some background material for the basics

So a few friends of mine and I decided to start this little blog and website to teach people about how screwed up Illinois' taxes are. The state government taxes lower-income people at a higher percentage of their income than higher-income people. Why?

Because we don't have tax brackets!

That is SO MESSED UP!

So check out www.IllinoisNeedsTaxBrackets.com for a new fun site that Abby Abraham set up.

And this community blog is for dozens of people to post whatever snippets of thoughts they have or reactions to learning about Illinois' lack of tax brackets and, ideally, some fun pictures and videos they can post and tell all their friends and family about. So lots more people learn that, in fact, Illinois. Needs. Tax. Brackets.

Join us! Post a comment and jump in.

Here are some background materials from my other blog:

http://djwinfo.blogspot.com/2009/03/poll-majority-of-100k-income-earners.html
http://djwinfo.blogspot.com/2004/01/report-on-pat-quinns-tax-idea-income.html
http://djwinfo.blogspot.com/2008/04/progressive-constitutional-amendments.html
http://djwinfo.blogspot.com/2008/10/poll-illinois-voters-want-federal-style.html

Check those out! And spread the word!

We can fix this and get tax brackets! We just need to pass a constitutional amendment to Illinois' constitution. There already is going to be a constitutional amendment on the ballot this November about recalling the governor. So this would be the second one. No big deal, right?

To get a constitutional amendment on the ballot in Illinois, the Illinois House and Senate have to vote for it. Well, that just means you and I need to tell our Senators and Representatives that we want them to vote to put it on the ballot. Our deadline is early May, 2010. And there's already a bill filed.

It's SJRCA38 and you can read it here:

So we can do this....IF people learn that Illinois doesn't have tax brackets AND we tell more and more people that, in fact, Illinois Needs Tax Brackets (dot com).

What do you think? Who can you tell? Spread the word!