Much of the routine trade and investment between China and America is entirely appropriate and in America’s interest. But inserting the Chinese Communist Party into America’s pay-to-play system and its economic development strategy isn’t just crossing a line. It’s a leap into an abyss of stupidity.
He misses the mark when he fails to ignore that every taxpayer in Illinois is a working-class citizen. No one likes to pay increasing amounts of money they earned toward an insufferable economic calamity like Chicago, and for that matter, Illinois. Increasing real estate taxes, sales taxes, gas taxes and tolls impacts everyone. The fact they keep taking more out of your pocket is lost on them – but not on the people leaving the state. Hope everyone enjoys paying those cook county taxes right before christmas. Once again, taxpayers get coal and watch illegals and union lackeys open presents.