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Blagojevich questions Jackson's opposition to tax plan
ROCKFORD (AP) - Businessman Duntai Mathews knows it's important to have healthy employees at his small woodworking company, it's finding the money to pay for their medical insurance that's the problem.
So Mathews and his family go without insurance and he doesn't offer it to his 11 employees either.
"I need it," said Mathews, who is backing Gov. Rod Blagojevich's $7.6 billion business tax plan to make access to health care affordable in Illinois and generate money for schools and property tax relief.
Mathews said private insurance companies want to charge him $6,200 a month to cover his employees and Blagojevich's plan to offer low-cost health insurance for workers would do it for $2,800 a month.
But Blagojevich's tax plan has outraged many
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