Note to readers from Mark Glennon re: Ukraine
May 6, 2026
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Everybody needs a side hustle these days, and mine is Ukraine, where I am now.
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If this bill passes, say goodbye to local control over all Illinois parks and expect to see open drug and alcohol use, needles, no sanitation and fire hazards, but no ordinary park users.
As high as the tax is, IL’s flat tax is the only thing that keeps Illinois’ steady population outflow from becoming a balls-out jailbreak
And 6 years ago I moved out of state. Funny how that works.
If the 5% state income tax rate was made permanent in 2011 instead of temporary, there is no 2017 hike, Rauner isn’t hamstringed by a revenue shortfall when he takes office in 2015 and probably puts up a much better fight against Pritzker in 2018.
Rauner only lost 100,000 votes between 2014 and 2018. JB McDonalds GAINED 700,000 votes over every democrat gubernatorial since 1978, including Rauner. Why is that? How did this happen? No one wants to answer this question. But those extra 700,000 votes have become permanent in every Democrat race. “How J.B. Pritzker outperformed in every Illinois county in the governor’s race – Chicago Sun-Times Nearly 700,000 more ballots were cast in the 2018 Illinois elections compared with 2014, and J.B. Pritzker may have received nearly all of those votes. In winning the Illinois governor’s race, Pritzker won 675,000 more votes statewide… Read more »
Some of the reasons I left Taxistan;
Working age population leaving is an easy metric. The corporate tax going from 5.25% to 9.5% plays a part in the Illinois unemployment rate.
There is an old saying ‘If you want less of something, tax it’ The data shows that to be true.