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Huge Illinois Business Leaves for Indiana
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| Aug 22, 2011
| Scott McCoy
Posted on 08/23/2011 6:03:48 AM PDT by KeyLargo
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posted on
08/23/2011 6:03:51 AM PDT
by
KeyLargo
To: KeyLargo
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posted on
08/23/2011 6:05:15 AM PDT
by
KeyLargo
To: KeyLargo
We just moved from Chicago to sarasota....what a DIFF in taxes!!!
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posted on
08/23/2011 6:06:12 AM PDT
by
Ann Archy
(Abortion is the Human Sacrifice to the god of Convenience.)
To: KeyLargo
Well, democrats, here’s the fruit of your misdeeds. Make things tough for business... and business will make things tough for you.. by leaving.
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posted on
08/23/2011 6:09:33 AM PDT
by
ScottinVA
(As a party that gives Obama what he wants, what again is the GOP`s 2012 selling point?)
To: Ann Archy
It would be hard to think of a worse place than Blue Island.
To: KeyLargo
I would truly appreciate an HONEST reply from someone. Is ANYONE surprised or SHOCKED, SHOCKED at this?
Does ANYONE think that this is the last company to “abandon a sinking ship?”
Does ANYONE think the Demonrat Governor and/or legislature will act in a “sane” or realistic way to this.
Also, does ANYONE in Illinois even THINK?
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posted on
08/23/2011 6:10:44 AM PDT
by
CaptainAmiigaf
(NY TIMES: "We print the news as it fits our views")
To: Ann Archy
the times
Forging company expected to bring 240 jobs to Merrillville location
By Matt Saltanovitz matt.saltanovitz@nwi.com, (219) 933-4089 | Posted: Monday, August 22, 2011 5:15 pm
MERRILLVILLE | Gov. Mitch Daniels is expected to join executives from the Blue Island, Ill.-based company Modern Drop Forge on Tuesday to announce the company will be moving a major operation to Merrillville, resulting in about 240 new jobs.
On Monday afternoon, Merrillville Town Councilman Richard Hardaway confirmed that Modern Drop Forge will be coming to Merrillville, following the Town Council’s passage of a 10-year tax abatement for the company in May.
Hopefully this will result in a significant economic boost for Merrillville,” Hardaway said. “We’ve been looking for some time for some type of home run. But up until now we’ve only had nibbles.”
He credited a team effort by elected and other town officials for attracting the company to Merrillville.
....The Republican governor has said he expects more Illinois companies will come to Indiana without IEDC assistance because they are attracted by the state’s minimal government regulation on business and lower taxes.
Read more: http://www.nwitimes.com/business/local/article_ca97a596-5735-55b0-817d-96a688797769.html#ixzz1VrCj5tXd
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posted on
08/23/2011 6:10:44 AM PDT
by
KeyLargo
To: KeyLargo
Excellent. We do need to punish these blue states for punishing free enterprise. Maybe the people will wake up and blame the Dems.
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posted on
08/23/2011 6:12:27 AM PDT
by
grumpygresh
(Democrats delenda est)
To: CaptainAmiigaf
Also, does ANYONE in Illinois even THINK?Sure! But we're outgunned and outvoted by the crooks in Chicago and other socialist havens...
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posted on
08/23/2011 6:13:28 AM PDT
by
bcsco
To: KeyLargo
Has Obama and Holder’s people approved the move?
To: Eric in the Ozarks
Back in the day Blue Island had a thriving manufacturing base, was solidly blue-collar and middle class. Now it’s like driving through a war zone.
And it was done quite on purpose.
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posted on
08/23/2011 6:15:20 AM PDT
by
Lurker
(The avalanche has begun. The pebbles no longer have a vote.)
To: Eric in the Ozarks
Can you elaborate, please? I’m not familiar with Blue Island.
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posted on
08/23/2011 6:15:51 AM PDT
by
nodumbblonde
("The ladder of success is best climbed by stepping on the rungs of opportunity." - Ayn Rand)
To: CaptainAmiigaf
I do, and I have a beautiful house with 2 acres on a tremendous bass lake and I’m seriously considering moving.
To: CaptainAmiigaf
I do, and I have a beautiful house with 2 acres on a tremendous bass lake and I’m seriously considering moving.
To: Dr. Ursus
RAHM EMANUEL AND GOV PAT QUINN I assume will be getting new federal shovel ready jobs when they start the process of building a moat around the state of Illinois.
Posted 8/22/11 1:53 p.m.
WLS Radio’s Bill Cameron Reports
CHICAGO (WLS) - Some Chicago companies are avoiding some city and county sales taxes by locating their legal point of sales in Kankakee where the sales tax is lower.
This nets Kankakee some badly needed money, but Mayor Rahm Emanuel says that’s not right.
“People are practicing a way of cheating the system. And there are people in the business of helping people cheat the system,” Emanuel said.
So the mayor says the city will sue and there are also efforts in Springfield to make this illegal.
http://www.wlsam.com/Article.asp?id=2267689&spid
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posted on
08/23/2011 6:20:49 AM PDT
by
KeyLargo
To: KeyLargo
Omg do I hate this state. My current personal situation precludes me from being able to move but if not for that I would be gone in a heartbeat.
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posted on
08/23/2011 6:20:52 AM PDT
by
thepatriot1
(...brought to you courtesy of the Red, White and Blue)
To: KeyLargo
The only hope for Illinois.
2 Chronicles 7:14
To: KeyLargo
How’s Hussein support working out for you, Illinios?
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posted on
08/23/2011 6:22:39 AM PDT
by
bgill
(just getting tagline ready for 6 months after you vote in Perry - Tried to warn you he's a RINO.)
To: thepatriot1
Its not even:
“take from the rich and give to the poor”
anymore its
“take from the ‘barely scraping by’ and give to the ones who don’t care to work and just want to live off the rest of us”
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posted on
08/23/2011 6:23:29 AM PDT
by
thepatriot1
(...brought to you courtesy of the Red, White and Blue)
To: Dr. Ursus
It’s OK, there not green jobs. It’s just one of those real jobs that make money, and don’t require a govmint hand-out.
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