Are Illinoisans leaving because of a toxic combination of high taxes, few opportunities and poor policies or is bad weather more to blame? Are states like Texas, Florida and Georgia really the free and prosperous places they claim to be? Is Illinois really all that bad a place to live? And is there really a “Great Re-Sorting” going on? All that and more was covered in Part 1 of Ted’s debate with WVON’s Matt McGill.
Read more from Wirepoints:
- The Great Re-Sort: New, National Survey Indicates Political Migration Will Soar
- Thirty years of pain: Illinoisans suffer as property tax bills grow far faster than household incomes, home values
- Red states Texas, Florida crush blue New York, California and Illinois when it comes to 2022 population growth – A Wirepoints 50-state survey
- New 2022 Census data: Illinois’ population down another 104,000, nation’s 3rd-worst drop
- DeSantis’s Florida blows away entire country in competition for people and their wealth
With $162 billion more from taxpayers, couldn’t you deliver a few bond upgrades, too
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A largely unasked question is becoming glaring: Is Illinois doing all it should to use artificial intelligence to make government cost less and work better? So far, the evidence says no.
Anyone who cares about their family’s future is fleeing Illinois. Other states have issues, but nothing like Illinois. The greedy government workers have Stolen’d money from the next unborn generations. It is a bottomless pit of GREED.