Illinois: hitting up the poor for their bottom dollar

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If you've ever seen Disney's Robin Hood, you might remember a scene where the rotund sheriff of Nottingham steals the birthday present of a 7 year-old rabbit, a gold coin his poor rabbit family scrimped and saved to give him.

The state of Illinois is getting in on that action.

A report by the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities shows 16 states that gouge even the poorest of the poor on their income taxes.

The report measured the threshold at which states stop taxing - how low you can go until you don't owe. Illinois? We can go pretty low.