Citing Wirepoints’ Ted Dabrowski.

A reprint of our Wirepoints story.

After a years-long stretch in which the city’s economy substantially outpaced that of the state, Illinois’ economic malaise appears to have spread inside the Chicago city limits. New data indicate employment growth in the city has flatlined, with only 510 more private-sector jobs in the city than in the same period a year ago and the number of

“This month we’ve been publishing stories of Illinois residents who left the state in their rearview mirrors…. The stories hit a nerve.

“Thumbs down to Democrats for again electing Michael Madigan as the chairman of the Democratic Party of Illinois.”

“These people pay a lot in Illinois taxes. Rank-and-file taxpayers should be trying to keep them rather than sending them to Texas, Nevada, Florida and other states that don’t tax income. High-income earners help pay for the state services that the General Assembly loves to approve but not fund.”

Comment: See our earlier article linked here on the many questions that need to be answered about this idea.