Ted talked with Dan Proft and Amy Jacobson this week about how much of a rip-off Illinois gas prices are compared to our neighbors, why Illinoisans keep finding new reasons to move out of the state and how the state plans on hitting businesses with higher payroll taxes.
Read more from Wirepoints:
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- Five reasons why Gov. Pritzker’s gas tax “relief” isn’t relief at all
- Another pension sweetener? State lawmaker proposes a week of paid mental health leave for teachers
- Illinois used to have one competitive advantage over its neighbors: its flat tax. Now that’s largely gone
- Gov. Pritzker can’t take credit for Illinois’ improved budget projections when it’s the feds that bailed the state out
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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.
I have two teenagers in High School. I figure I have 6 years before they’re done and out of College, because I worked hard and made sacrifices to give them the same stability in life that I had growing up. After that. I’m out. I will take my business, all of my company’s annual revenue, all of my wealth and I will leave Illinois. My Children will take their education, wealth and productivity somewhere else too. Pritzker can pony up himself or tax the breadlines. It’s heartbreaking to leave my home state but Liberals have ruined Illinois beyond hope.
Sure, here’s yet another voice from the someday-I’m-gonna tribe. If I had a dollar for every …l, I’d be …. We’ve all heard that old tune ad nauseum.
No James. They mean it this time. I wonder who all these wealthy people are selling their residence to since everyone is leaving the state?
If it’s truly as bad as everyone says it is then I’m not sure anyone will be left in 6 years to buy GMC’s home. Then again, the real estate in the rest of the country will probably rise at a much greater pace than Illinois so all these people that are “going to leave” in 6 years will most likely stay put.
Maybe, but we all know such people who incessantly moan and groan, authoritatively say they are going to do x, y or z about it,then literally never do anything of the sort. Now, I don’t know this guy in particular, but my bet is that he might well be a member of the bitch-and-moan club I’ve mentioned. Personally, I think if out-movements accelerate there will be some who benefit by staying here. Theotetically, there is a silvery lining for every cloud, isn’t there?
There will be city dwellers who are true (blue) believers and sadly they will get injured or killed if they do stick. To get “paid” by their overlords. Like the covid liars and willingly injected, they are whores for the paycheck – put simply.
I am on my way out. A corrupted state, top to bottom. PIGS IN TROUGH everywhere. No hope of it changing in my lifetime. I wanted to hang on. This year has changed all of that. It is not to be. We all know the 2020 election was stolen. We all saw the count being stopped all at once on election night in the battleground states. Those in power installed their man, to screw the American people. It really is Good v Evil now. The Good being the hardworking people of the USA who do not suck on a teat… Read more »
People of wealth are usually better educated and informed than the average Joe and they are leaving Illinois. That alone should grab your attention. Add on to that all of the info Wirepoints has published, and you should be very worried if your plan is to stick around.
We’re out by the end of the summer. I’ve had it with high taxes, endless corruption, fiscal mismanagement, dangerous streets, destructive progressive policies, union graft, woke educational and political systems, unenforced laws, lagging economics, mayoral ineptitude and on and on. My gosh, what a despicable list. I’ll take my income and spending power elsewhere. Notice it’s not about the weather, governor.
Well said. Good luck with the move.