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Playboy Closing Chicago Headquarters April 30
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Posted on 01/17/2012 9:34:55 AM PST by tcrlaf
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Joining the ever-growing list of companies with high-income employees leaving Illinois since they passed those "TAX INCREASES ON THE RICH!" last spring.
It's so bad the Illinois Legislature had to pass SPECIAL LEGISLATION exempting the Chicago Mercantile Exchange from the new taxes to keep them from moving to Northern Indiana.
But don't worry, Illinois. Pat Quinn has promised to increase taxes EVEN MORE to protect those fat State Employee Union benefits!
No idea who is actually going to PAY for it, but that doesn't really matter anymore, does it.
Oh... And by the way. Indiana thanks you for all those jobs Illinois is sending us.
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posted on
01/17/2012 9:35:01 AM PST
by
tcrlaf
To: tcrlaf
Keeping us abreast of current events by laying bare all the pertinent facts.
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posted on
01/17/2012 9:43:17 AM PST
by
Iron Munro
("Don't pick a fight with an old man. If he is too old to fight he'll just kill you." John Steinbeck)
To: tcrlaf
Your last sentenced may be shown to be correct if Right to Work passes in Indiana. Looks like it will. That, plus Illinois taxes may have a deleterious effect on Illinois’s future...
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posted on
01/17/2012 9:43:37 AM PST
by
donozark
(Ron Paul! You magnificent bastard! I read your book! (cook book that is))
To: Iron Munro
Boobs lowered to half staff...
To: tcrlaf
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posted on
01/17/2012 9:45:22 AM PST
by
dfwgator
(Don't wake up in a roadside ditch. Get rid of Romney.)
To: tcrlaf
Joining the ever-growing list of companies with high-income employees leaving Illinois since they passed those "TAX INCREASES ON THE RICH!" last spring. Must be really bad to lose jobs to Kalifornia...
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posted on
01/17/2012 9:45:49 AM PST
by
Yo-Yo
(Is the /sarc tag really necessary?)
To: tcrlaf
Is LA better than Chicago on taxes?
To: tcrlaf
Escaping Illinois taxes by going to the tax-friendly clime of California???
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posted on
01/17/2012 9:46:42 AM PST
by
NonValueAdded
(Limbaugh: Tim Tebow miracle: "He had atheists praying to God that he would lose.")
To: 1776 Reborn
Is LA better than Chicago on taxes?Believe the plethora of sun-tanned big-chested sluts trump taxes for this particular corporate entity.
To: Iron Munro
...uhm...I wonder if there’s gonna be a close-out sale on Bunnies?
Buy one, get one free?
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posted on
01/17/2012 9:55:05 AM PST
by
moovova
(Report my sarcastic, fear-mongering, hate-filled lies to www.AttackWatch.com by clicking HERE.)
To: tcrlaf
Will the last person leaving Illinois please turn the lights off?
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posted on
01/17/2012 9:56:20 AM PST
by
Rummyfan
(Iraq: it's not about Iraq anymore, it's about the USA!)
To: Yo-Yo
Must be really bad to lose jobs to Kalifornia...
Hey, California is still a world-leader when it comes to producing bongs, porn, and skanks
To: tcrlaf
I would have thought they would go to Florida.
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posted on
01/17/2012 10:02:06 AM PST
by
Beagle8U
(Free Republic -- One stop shopping ....... It's the Conservative Super WalMart for news .)
To: tcrlaf
You can attribute it to what you wish, but the fact is, playboy was titillating at one time, but that is no longer true and their advertising is drying up. Internet victim.
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posted on
01/17/2012 10:03:14 AM PST
by
org.whodat
(What is the difference in Newt's, Perry's and Willard's positions on Amnesty.)
To: moovova
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posted on
01/17/2012 10:07:26 AM PST
by
org.whodat
(What is the difference in Newt's, Perry's and Willard's positions on Amnesty.)
To: tcrlaf
Taxes may have hurried the decision, but the tax climate in LA isn’t great, either.
Playboy is just one guy, Hugh Heffner, who controls the company and does whatever the hell he wants. Always has, always will.
Probably Chicago is actually getting too cold for this old geezer, who likes his pleasures. So, off to LA, where there are also plenty of nightspots and restaurants, and whatever else it takes to make Hugh happy. The girls will go with him.
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posted on
01/17/2012 10:09:25 AM PST
by
Cicero
(Marcus Tullius)
To: tcrlaf
There’s a good book out written by one of his few gf with a brain. She went on to become a lawyer. Says the mansion is a total dump.
PB is going to collapse into a black hole with all the $$$ Hef is paying his GF. That is if he doesn’t die first.
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posted on
01/17/2012 10:09:53 AM PST
by
Zathras
To: org.whodat
...some beachbunnies. achhh...now my eyes need a cold shower.
:-)
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posted on
01/17/2012 10:10:58 AM PST
by
moovova
(Report my sarcastic, fear-mongering, hate-filled lies to www.AttackWatch.com by clicking HERE.)
To: tcrlaf
It may also have to do with declining revenues to Playboy. Its time, like all pre-internet media, has passed.
I worked in that building back in the 70s when the club was still open, but you could tell even then that it was declining by the clientele it was attracting. It had a good, long run.
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posted on
01/17/2012 10:13:49 AM PST
by
EDINVA
To: tcrlaf
Playboy is a hollow shell of it’s former self that makes most of it’s money from licensing it’s brand vs. publishing a declining portfolio of magazines. They won’t be missed.
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posted on
01/17/2012 10:17:03 AM PST
by
bigbob
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