The Wall Street Journal cited Wirepoints’ labor research in its opinion section this week.
Read the WSJ editorial: Illinois Is Government Union Heaven
Many states offer high salaries to public employees, but Illinois state workers are the second highest-paid government workers in the country when adjusted for cost of living, according to Wirepoints. The Land of Lincoln beats California, New Jersey and New York on the metric. This is one reason Illinois voters pay the second highest property tax rates. New Jersey is number one.
New Trier High School made national headlines nine years ago as a “canary in a coal mine” for political indoctrination in public schools. The canaries lived.
Among the consequences of economic growth that badly lags national averages are billions of lost revenue every year. Yet denial reigns in Illinois, fueling the vicious cycle of demand for higher taxes.
Illinois is DOA. Wait it is going to get worse, much worse.
All Major corporations are going to move out to a lower tax state with much less crime.
The only GREAT jobs will be government.
Those with huge pensions will move to Florida and enjoy the good life.
They won’t have a vote in Illinois if they move to florida.
Governor pritzker failed our state Illinois by using his power too much for COVID-19 reusing the emergency call for over 27 times and now he is looking for re-election . He would destroy completely this state if he got re-elected again.
The most significant result of the WSJ coverage is that folks outside of Illinois have gotten an early heads up about what a hard left failure of a governor Pritzker is. Now, when JB tries to stick his nose into national affairs, he will have a much more difficult time defining himself, and this Amendment 1 attempt will be one of the few things outsiders now about him.
That’s a good point.
Sadly, it’s not likely that anyone who is inclined to vote for Dem’s in Illinois, but who might be persuaded to vote otherwise, will have a subscription to the Wall Street Journal. Or the Chicago Tribune, or the Sun Times, or, frankly any newspaper. Too many voters “inform” themselves with something they’ve read or heard from someone who heard or read something from someone else who claimed to know what’s important. Local “news” broadcasts and “newspapers” – little more than the murder or car accident of the moment, high school sports ad infinitum ad nauseam, and yesterday’s weather. I learn… Read more »
Illinois is for Idiots.
Actually that one is a freebie, no sub required. I’m the one that spotted it, although I don’t search actively for IL stories. But it does reach those that need to see it-captains of industry who will not look favorably on IL. You can lay the blame for the departures and lack of new businesses squarely at the feet of the Dems and Jumbo Belly.