Ted and Mark attempt to make sense of the contradicting census data after new information was released regarding Illinois’ population. Also, a look at the first GOP debates in the race for governor and more.
Read more from Wirepoints:
- Bleeding people: New IRS migration data shows Illinois lost another 100,000 residents and a record amount of wealth in 2020
- A statistic that continues to be ignored: The high rate of births to unmarried mothers across Illinois’ 20 largest cities
- False advertising of Illinois’ new ‘property tax relief’ bill
- About that U.S. Census “undercount”: Illinois’ population is still just 12.8 million
- 2021 Census numbers are horrible for Illinois: Population decline second worst in country, behind only New York
Expect no retraction or apology. This what they do.
The state’s existing buyout program for its own pensions is the precedent for Chicago, which should be a warning: Look out for similar exaggerated claims and shoddy analysis.
Illinois lost another 54,000 tax filers and dependents, net, according to the IRS. Since 2000, fleeing taxpayers have taken $94 billion of annual adjusted gross income with them.
Somehow the census makes no senses whatsoever.
The census made very little effort to count illegals.