Patrick Windhorst
Patrick Windhorst
Patrick Windhorst points to Rep. Natalie Phelps Finnie's (D-Elizabethtown) support of measures like HR 1025 as being the primary reason why the State of Illinois can’t seem to get out of its own way in terms of being a place where people and businesses want to be.
“Over 30,000 people fled the state of Illinois last year because the financial burden of living here is too great,” Windhorst posted on Facebook following Phelps’ vote in favor of a progressive income tax. “Rep. Phelps Finnie just voted to make the tax burden even greater on our working families.”
Windhorst is set to face off against Phelps Finnie in November’s general election in the 118th House District and has made the issue of tax reform a primary staple of his platform.
“Raising taxes, again, on the middle class and those just trying to get by in Southern Illinois is fundamentally wrong,” he added on Facebook. “When Rep. Phelps Finnie takes our voice to Springfield and uses it to echo Mike Madigan’s tax-raising agenda, Southern Illinois loses.”
The 118th House District includes parts or all of Alexander, Gallatin, Hamilton, Hardin, Jackson, Johnson, Massac, Pope, Pulaski, Saline and Union counties.
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