Note to readers from Mark Glennon re: Ukraine
May 6, 2026
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Everybody needs a side hustle these days, and mine is Ukraine, where I am now.
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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.
The state is a self-licking ice cream cone. It raises taxes to hire more new state employees. And then taxes the state employees to hire more new state employees, ad infinitum
There is no amount of taxation that will ever satisfy the bottomless greed of Democrats.
Florida sounds peachy on that map in linked article but when you factor in 8-10K a year for homeowners insurance all of a sudden the grass isn’t greener on the other side.
You are assuming property taxes, etc. are not going higher and higher in Taxistan!!
You don’t think property insurance in Florida will continue to go higher and higher? Not only that, insurance companies don’t care if the costs rise so high that people no longer buy their product and lose their homes. They would much rather lose a customer than provide coverage at below cost. There are several articles discussing this problem for California and Florida. As the actuaries continue to send up warning flags about the risks of these disasters, more and more companies will continue to drop out of the market. I know someone that currently is paying 10k per year in… Read more »
Have to agree on that one about homeowners insurance, and that’s if can even get it.
This state’s elected leaders are pigs at a trough. I work to make my life better for my family. I am not here to serve and fund the teachers pensions for an education that is an afterthought to them.
Consider da Dems pols in Illinois and Sheeetcago and their masters da public sector unions like a Black Hole.
How do you stop da Black Hole from sucking in more and more of your wealth via higher and higher taxes.
Get as far away as you can from it.
Illinoisans, vote with your feet and flee da Illinois Black Hole!
Someone has to pay for the ever loyal Democrat Party voters’ rewards—the teachers, the local government employees, the governmental retirees. These groups vote in every election. Given their wage levels, their benefit plans including pension, they don’t mind paying more in taxes as they can afford them. Perhaps if more people who don’t participate in the rewards system voted, things would change. Until then, pay or move.
This is the Number 1 reason people are leaving and never coming back.
Highest taxes and no money. Someone is getting rich, and it is not the taxpayers.
Some of the taxpayers are.