School costs covered by property taxes include local districts’ contribution to teacher pensions. Plenty of governors, lawmakers, candidates and policy wonks have come to the same conclusions when identifying issues with Illinois’ tax system over the years: Local schools’ reliance on property taxes both creates inequities in education across the state, and drives up property taxes for homeowners. Trips back to the 1990s, the 1970s and the 1930s may be instructive. 3 vote to amend Illinois’ constitution and allow for a graduated income tax - instead of the flat income tax structure the state has had since 1969 - is not just the culmination of Pritzker’s three-year-long campaign for the change he vowed as a gubernatorial candidate, but also the reverberation of decades of fiscal policy and messaging. The players have changed and the policy proposals are different, but what remains constant are both Illinois’ underlying structural revenue imbalance and the element of mistrust of Springfield politicians. JB Pritzker’s signature plan to implement a graduated income tax structure in Illinois are the echoes of past attempts at tax reform. In the dueling campaigns for and against Gov.

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