Illinois has a tax referendum on the upcoming ballot which, if passed, would put a higher income tax rate on any household that makes over $250,000 a year.

One of the tv ads trying to convince average citizens (so... for Illinois at large, households earning roughly $63,000 a year or less) to vote this thing down has a middle-aged farmer humbly pleading with us to "stand with family farms and small businesses," but what he fails to mention is that his "family farm" (a term which still generates sympathy in the Midwest and evokes images of impoverished, overworked manual laborers struggling to put food on the table) generates $500,000 each year and has a whopping two (2) employees. That's literally ten times the average household income of the zip code they're in.

But we're supposed to feel bad for this family that's making half a million dollars annually because... the state wants them to pay their fair share in income taxes like the rest of us???