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To: Cringing Negativism Network

Well their corp HQ is in Obamaland (suburban Chicago).
You can understand why they might consider it.


4 posted on 04/14/2014 7:35:12 AM PDT by nascarnation (Toxic Baraq Syndrome: hopefully infecting a Dem candidate near you)
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To: nascarnation

Remember when the state of Illinois took the Democratic approach to fixing their budget woes by raising taxes? The debt problems of the Land of Lincoln would disappear, Governor Pat Quinn argued, if the state hiked corporate and personal income tax rates by as much as two-thirds. The extra revenue would stabilize the state’s fiscal footing and pull them from the brink of financial disaster.

How well did that work out? As the Wall Street Journal reports, Illinois debt has now been downgraded to the lowest rating of all 50 states by Moody’s:

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052970204555904577164944279702590.html

maybe if idiots didn’t run the state...


36 posted on 07/02/2014 4:41:36 AM PDT by TurboZamboni (Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.-JFK)
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