[sphinx]

Illinois has many classic responses left. It hasn't even begun to harvest body parts of taxpayers (although that market would like be saturated quickly.) It could establish roadblocks on all intestate highways and loot motorists and tuckers at gunpoint. It can send raiding parties into surrounding states for plunder. Or it can condemn political undesirables and seize their property.

This might get them through another election cycle or two, long enough for the current leadership to line their own pockets and retire elsewhere. But it's hard to see where Illinois goes after that.

Or the state could declare bankruptcy. The tricky part for the Illinois political establishment is how to ensure that all the bankruptcy writeoffs and writedowns are allocated to political enemies, not friends.

[dfwgator]

It hasn't even begun to harvest body parts of taxpayers

How bout harvesting the organs of all the politicians in prison there.