{"id":1768820,"date":"2022-12-09T08:28:56","date_gmt":"2022-12-09T13:28:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1768820"},"modified":"2022-12-09T08:33:34","modified_gmt":"2022-12-09T13:33:34","slug":"deep-blue-illinois-named-the-worst-state-for-the-middle-class","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/deep-blue-illinois-named-the-worst-state-for-the-middle-class\/","title":{"rendered":"Deep-Blue Illinois Named the Worst State for the Middle Class"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">20<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fdeep-blue-illinois-named-the-worst-state-for-the-middle-class%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1768820&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/justthenews.com\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/social_media_share\/public\/2020-04\/GettyImages-945426068.jpg?h=199d8c1f&#038;itok=zTFl6Rec\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\"   style=\"display:none\"><\/div>\n<p>A new report lists the Land of Lincoln as the least tax-friendly state in the nation for middle-class families.<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"editor-rtfLink\" href=\"https:\/\/www.kiplinger.com\/taxes\/state-tax\/601614\/least-tax-friendly-states-for-middle-class-families-2021\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The report<\/a> was done by Kiplinger and ranked the 10 worst states for middle-class families when looking at the state&#8217;s overall tax burden.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Sorry, Illinois, but you&#8217;re the least tax-friendly state in the country for middle-class families,&#8221; the report said.<\/p>\n<p>Illinois finished poorly on the list due to the impact on the middle class from the state&#8217;s flat income tax rate, average combined state and local sales tax and its high property tax burden that ranks second highest in the country.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We have an extraordinarily high tax burden, and you&#8217;re asking the middle class to foot the bill for everything that we do in government,&#8221; state Rep. Mike Marron, R-Danville, said. &#8220;We&#8217;re not very judicious with how we spend money in Springfield, which is a huge problem. The middle class bears the brunt of that.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Illinois is a donor state, which means they give more in federal taxes than the state receives per capita, said state Rep. LaShawn Ford, D-Chicago. He claims this is the main issue hurting the middle class.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We need to overcome the fact that we are a donor state,&#8221; Ford told The Center Square. &#8220;When you look at what states are more friendly to taxpayers, they are usually not donor states.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Ford said that past leadership has also played a part in hindering the growth of the state&#8217;s middle class.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We had a horrible tenure of [former Gov. Bruce Rauner] that really hurt the taxpayers,&#8221; Ford said. &#8220;It&#8217;s been a combination of being unable to bring more money back from the federal government and mismanagement over the years.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Rauner hasn&#8217;t been in office since 2019 and served only four years. Former Democratic Illinois House Speaker Michael Madigan served for nearly 40 years and faces two dozen federal corruption-related charges tied to his role as speaker.<\/p>\n<p>Marron told The Center Square that Illinois might be too far into trouble to fix issues plaguing the middle class.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I think being realistic, the state is set in its ways, and it would be tough to change, but that does not mean we should not try,&#8221; Marron said. &#8220;That also doesn&#8217;t mean that we cannot change things.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Illinois is one of six states in the Midwest listed on Kiplinger&#8217;s top 10 worst states for middle-class residents.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new report lists the Land of Lincoln as the least tax-friendly state in the nation for middle-class families.The report was done by Kiplinger and ranked the 10 worst states<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1768823,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[547],"tags":[5458,6123,7089,6413,7088,7087,3819,6044],"class_list":["post-1768820","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-bongino-report","tag-bongino","tag-class","tag-deep-blue","tag-illinois","tag-middle","tag-named","tag-report","tag-worst"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1768820","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1768820"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1768820\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1768823"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1768820"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1768820"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1768820"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}