Gov. J.B. Pritzker’s backers in organized labor are putting their weight behind his plan to shift Illinois from a flat-rate income tax to a system where higher earners pay higher rates.
Bob Reiter, president of the Chicago Federation of Labor, was among union leaders who joined the Democratic governor Tuesday at a news conference at the Thompson Center in the Loop to pitch the plan, which the Pritzker administration says would generate $3.4 billion in new annual revenue by raising rates on the wealthiest 3 percent of taxpayers while cutting taxes for everyone else.
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