Austin Berg: Why Illinois doesn’t need a ‘millionaires tax’

About this episode

Austin Berg discusses the negative implications of a millionaires tax for Illinois.

Austin Berg, Executive Director of the Chicago Policy Center and author of the The Last Ward on Substack, joins John Williams to explain why a ‘millionaires tax’ would be disastrous for the state of Illinois.

People in this episode

Host: John Williams

Guest: Austin Berg

Topics covered

• millionaires tax
• Illinois
• politics
• economy

Keywords

• tax policy
• Chicago Policy Center
• The Last Ward

Mentioned in this episode

Books & works: the The Last Ward on Substack

Places: Illinois

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