The taxes aren’t really that bad here (IL)...about in the middle. The problem is the corruption, the deadlock that the Dumbocrat Party has on the state legislature and Governorship, and the overwhelmingly incompetent financial management of state finances (see #2 above). It is a shame to see a state with the agricultural, industrial, transportation, and manufacturing resources Illinois has so poorly managed and run into the ground by a bunch of Obama-like incompetent, inexperienced, lazy know-nothing politicians. When they control everything - the more conservative parts of the state may as well not exist, your state representatives are not going to even be able to get a bill up for discussion unless the Democrats want it to go forward.
The best hope is Bruce Rauner, a millionaire businessman running for Governor on the promise of running the state like a business and term limits. We’ll find out in a few weeks...
Let me make it even simpler:
Imagine what the US would be like if there were no Tea Party, no Ted Cruz or Rand Paul, just Obama, Reid, and Pelosi doing whatever they wanted to do. And that it had been this way since 2002 with no term limits on any of them.
That’s why Illinois is what is is.
Rauner is the Combine candidate. Google his support of Rahm Emanuel.