Posted on 08/23/2011 6:03:48 AM PDT by KeyLargo
The recent unbelievable hike in state income tax, some of the highest gasoline prices in the country, inflationary food costs, not to mention all the expressways are now becoming almost impossible to use because of the exorbitant tolls (another hike coming)....all combine to make it increasingly impossible to live in the state and still pay the bills.
The Dem state government is corrupt. The Dem city government of Chicago is corrupt....and the sheer weight of Chicago's Democrat/liberal/welfare/minority voting power is the tail that wags the dog for the entire state....so no relief is in sight, ever.
The last person who leaves Illinois won't even be able to turn off the lights because electrity will have become so expensive that only candles will be available.
Leni
NLRB lawsuit to follow.
And to top it off, Merrilville is only about 10 miles from Illinois!
Illinois will just sue them to keep them there.
I hear you! We are about to become residents of Florida within the next few weeks. We fully expect anal probes for the next number of years from the Illinois regime...and we’re ready!
Blue Island, IL was a great working mans town which had a large Italian American community now replaced by Mexicans and welfare mommas.
When liberals from California start to reap what they have sewn and don't particularly like the society they have created, they leave bring the same pathologies to their new states. This is called “Californication”.
When voting at the ballot box fails, and those who were voted into office were given the mandate to loot and pillage the producers, the producers will vote with their feet and moving trucks.
Payrolls Climb in 31 States, Led by New York, Texas; Nevada Is at Bottom
By Alex Kowalski - Aug 19, 2011 3:26 PM CT
“The biggest job losses last month occurred in Illinois, where employers cut payrolls by 24,900,...”
That's a great slogan for the Democrat politicians in Illinois.
"ILLINOIS, THE NEXT MICHIGAN".
Or, "ILLINOIS, THE OTHER MICHIGAN".
Who Is John Galt?
“I just hope that those people who flee Illinois to conservative Southern states first realize why their former homes became hell holes and then don’t bring the same attitudes and politics to their new states.”
I have vacationed in New Hampshire once in awhile and found that the state is being inundated by liberals fleeing Massachusetts and the high taxes. However those new residents bring with them all of the socialist demands on New Hampshire government that they demanded in Taxachusetts.
Governor Lynch Announces NH Rate Drops Below 5 percent for the first time since December 2008
Also, Governor Signs Law Expanding Jobs Initiative to Continue to Help People Get Back to Work
CONCORD Governor John Lynch today announced New Hampshire’s unemployment rate has dropped to its lowest point in 2½ years. The state’s unemployment rate for April was 4.9 percent, the first time the rate has been below 5 percent since December 2008.
http://www.governor.nh.gov/media/news/2011/051317-unemployment-rate.htm
I lived in California from 1981 until 1994, and knew that it was only a matter of time before it went into the toilet as well.
So, when do you expect the State of Illinois Legislature to make it illegal to leave the state? That is either as an individual or a business entity?
“Who Is John Galt?”
Livin’ for the Apocalypse
One-Hour Special Premieres Sunday, August 28 at 10 PM ET/PT
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I live in that same area. My ex and I share custody of our kids so we would both have to move. We have actually discussed it because she is fed up with the politics in this state as well.
Ha....I said the same thing. “Chicago, the Detroit of the future”
It is good that you and your ex are discussing the important items. It can't be a good area to raise kids anymore. There was a lot of farmland there when I lived there. I know that Bell Labs was surrounded by corn fields, then. I understand it is surrounded by housing developments now.
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