Exodus from IL - when is Dennis moving ?

Seems Illinois is having a exodus of people that is now showing up in loss of revenue for the state - yet politicians say more taxes are needed and refuse to listen . Surrounding states are gaining from the movement as people seek states with low or no taxes and lower property taxes as well as other opportunities 

My cousins are land locked with the farm, Niece and her brood are considering even as they already own their home where may be too Difficult to sell as NOBODY wants to move IN.

Pritzker has been quoted as wanting a gas tax RAPID/SEVERE increase plus add tax to farm fuels then add mileage taxes to mechanized equipment with odometers, then raise income and property taxes. Is this MORON even for real? Cannot see the writing on the wall as he Depresses his state's economy, what a BS Artist.


Have said before, taxes are finite, raise a tax on a material and that material gets used LESS, the ensuing revenue raises momentarily then returns to the pre-raise level. Property taxes raise people QUIT doing improvements and upgrades, taxes slump as properties decline in value while sales taxes for those repair and upgrade materials also decline. Income taxes raise, employers either decrease employment or workers move to better employment OUT of State, income taxes remain stagnant or actually decline.

Trump made a Great choice reducing income taxes, the return of investment by adding SALES tax revenues by seeing materials use escalate where more employers hire more people and income taxes although less per each increase in total. Stupid is as stupid does with Democraps.

A nation, state, or municipality can never tax itself into prosperity; just the opposite is true. As people move out property values are depressed and the tax digest goes down so the dumb politicians raise the millage rate just to get the same revenue and values are depressed further. Did these bureaucraps never take a course in basic economics? Taxpayers are not a source of unlimited revenue.

Is Illinois still the only state to boast that almost all of their former governors are all in prison?

SteveM C/IL wrote: Coke-in-MN wrote: Part of the article says everyone living in IL owes at least $11,000 to the state retirement fund just to pay for what is already promised to retirees .      Screw all those who the gov promised to retire on my back.I didn't make those phoney deals and they should suffer the consequenses for singing up. None of them SOB's are lining up to contribute to my retirement. PAY YOUR OWN WAY!!!

But but but they worked so hard and deserve it! 😉

They are all gonna miss the grand opening of that new library.

Dave,you know the answer to that.....the poor babies wouldn't invest but would waste it  and end up with nuthin. Used to be called being responsible for yourself.Govt whores have screwed up everything they touch!

Well JC, we must be a close 2nd.....
I've been wanting to move to a warmer state,,,,,,it's looking closer all the time.

DMiller wrote: We missed that guillotine chop this time around, still have a Repub Governor but they are already eyeing a rate increase to fuel tax and license fees as a mileage tax. Only saving grace is it HAS to be put to voters Yay or Nay so does NOT automatically go thru. McCaskill is out, her replacement may be no better but at least SHE is Gone, tax and spend was all she knew, claimed to be helping the little guy while lining her current hubby's pockets all the time. Evil witch.

Yep, they tried to sneak a gas tax in this last election saying it was only going to cost a few cents the first year. Even the stoners that passed the medical marijuana by a 65/35 margin saw through that!

DMiller wrote:   Only saving grace is it HAS to be put to voters Yay or Nay so does NOT automatically go thru.

Yeah and then they come up with 27,000 votes after midnight and our republican is out and a domocrat is in...  Oh,,,,,also I heard that all the overseas ballots are somewhere around Argentina, coming up with a walking mailperson...

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