"We are out in Nevada checking it out. The tsunami of taxes that [Illinois] is enacting on us and the proposed ones are forcing us to look around....
"Illinois is fiscally bankrupt and going morally bankrupt as well. I am not going to spend the last part of my life fighting to fix it. It is beyond repair and the only thing that might change the game is the current FBI investigation that continues to bore into the corrupt Democratic Machine which has existed for a century there. As an out of the closet Republican, the level of discrimination has stepped up. Yesterday I spoke with people from California that have relocated to Las Vegas who say the same thing is happening there. It’s a different type of Jim Crow.
-- Connecting the dots between our economy, government and business --
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.
Each taxpayers share of government debt per Truth in Accounting:
US national debt: $803,000.
Illinois state debt: $52,600.
Nevada state debt: $3,100.
http://www.truthinaccounting.org/news/detail/financial-state-of-the-states-2019
Local debt is not included in the state debt.
Besides that it’s refreshing-even with a primary NO ONE Is particularly political.