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Celebrating our 12th Year!
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OUTRAGE P.O. Box 222 Bradley, IL 60915
There are no paid employees or officers in OUTRAGE. 100% of your donation will be used to pay incurred expenses in the fight to make local government accountable.
The Grace Committee which was formed during the Reagan Administration to study Federal Government spending, concluded that 33% of federal spending is unnecessary and wasteful. After delivering its report to the President and Congress, the committee was disbanded and to our knowledge none of the cost cutting recommendations were ever implemented.
Do you think State, County and Local governments are any more efficient or any more motivated to cut costs? Of course not. Consequently, we have a pyramid of governmental units. These Pork Laden Bureaucracies are gorging themselves on our wallets, while continuing to grow with little or no restraint.
We can fight back. It takes:
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Education
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Organization
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Determination
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Implementation and
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Persistence
OUTRAGE is an all volunteer, non-partisan Not for Profit Citizens Watchdog Group which urges citizen involvement in the democratic process. OUTRAGE monitors local government actions for compliance with state statutes and cost-effectiveness. After thorough research, OUTRAGE makes proposals for cost-cutting and legislative changes to bring about more efficiency in government.
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Exposed, fought and defeated a Kankakee County Sales Tax grab three times which wouldhave raised the area sales tax by as much as 16%.
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Exposed a secretly submitted land grant application that would have cost Bourbonnais Township Park District residents $4.3 million dollars in developmental costs.
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Encouraged and succeeded in getting the Bourbonnais Elementary School Board to reduce their tax levy by $100,000.
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Exposed under reporting of property tax increases by the County of Kankakee, Bourbonnais Township Park District, Bradley-Bourbonnais High School District and several others. BBCHS has since discontinued the practice!
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Circulated tax reduction referenda petitions to reduce BTPD property taxes. This action caused the Park District Board to place tax reduction referenda on the ballot which resulted in property tax reductions for BTPD residents.
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Helped Aroma Park Citizens defeat a referendum to make Aroma Park a Home Rule community which would have given the village board additional powers to tax and spend.
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Work with other community citizen groups in their battles against government excesses. They include several in the South and North/West suburbs and as far away as Florida. They also include the local group POWER in the fight against the proposed Chicago regional garbage dumps to be located in the immediate water shed of the Kankakee River.
We can fight city hall and win!
Your comments are welcome.
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Phone: 815-933-9696
Director & President: Darrel W. Bruck Jr.
Director & Secretary : Nancy Sharp
Director: Katherine Miller