A Billion Here a Billion There

The Lake County News-Sun apparently receives letters to the editor, and publishes some of them. Your LakeCountyEye never reads them, except the letters printed on-line. And even then your LakeCountyEye never actually reads anything much beyond the URL.

Lately it seems the letter writing masses are writing all their letters about the Illinois Income Tax increase. It is now estimated that the new law will increase the Illinois Income Tax by a billion percent:

http://newssun.suntimes.com/opinions/letters/3389089-474/billion-percent-illinois-tax-increase.html

Sources tell your LakeCountyEye the actual figure will be something closer to fiddy kabillion percent ...

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