Illinois residents still fleeing state in record numbers

American Thinker ^ | December 13,2017 | Rick Moran

[Hojczyk]

Wall Street Journal:

The Prairie State lost a record $4.75 billion in adjusted gross income to other states in the 2015 tax year, according to recently IRS data released. That's up from $3.4 billion in the prior year. Many of the migrants were retirees who often flock to balmier climes. But millennials accounted for more than a third of the net outflow in tax returns.

While Florida with zero income tax was the top destination for Illinois expatriates, the Illinois Policy Institute notes that Illinois lost income and people on net to all of its neighbors – Wisconsin (6,000 people based on claimed exemptions), Indiana (8,200), Iowa (1,900), Missouri (2,000) and Kentucky (1,100). What's the matter with Illinois?

Two words: taxes and corruption:

[S]uffice to say that exorbitant property and business taxes have retarded economic growth. Illinois's corporate tax rate is 9.5%, and pass-through business owners pay 6.45%. Though Illinois's flat 4.95% income tax rate is relatively low compared to its neighbors, Democrats have found other ways to clobber their citizens.

Property taxes in Cook County and Chicago's "collar" counties are the highest in the country outside of California and the Northeast. The average homeowner who moves from Lake County, Illinois, across the border to Kenosha County, Wisconsin would receive an annual $3,200 annual property tax cut. Taxes may increase as Democrats scrounge for cash to pay for pensions. Fitch Ratings reported this week that Illinois's unfunded pension liabilities equalled 22.8% of residents' personal income last year, compared to a median of 3.1% across all states and 1% in Florida.

[existentially_kuffer]

Three words: taxes and corruption & democrats

[Hojczyk]

There ruining Florida..go some place else PLEASE..

Got out of New York State in 1981...

Moved to Colorado Springs...the Californians ruined that state

Move to SW Florida in 2001..now this place is being ruined..

Any suggestions

[pa_dweller]

The average homeowner who moves from Lake County, Illinois, across the border to Kenosha County, Wisconsin would receive an annual $3,200 annual property tax cut.

So that's like, $6400 total. Right? Lousy editing.

[sparklite2]

The good ones are fleeing the state;
the remaining continue to fleece the state.

[dfwgator]

Looking for another nest to foul.

[Dr. Sivana]

One friend of mine is leaving Illinois for Cheyenne, Wyoming. You might get some Coloradans fleeing the potheads, but I don’t think it is much of a magnet for the nuts and twigs in California in any great numbers, and not at all for the east coast. Those crazies who do come over are easily buffered by a 40 acre plot.

As my Wyoming-bound friend said, “I want to reduce the idiot-to-me ratio.”

[Red Badger]

Buy ammo.
Lots of ammo.....................

[tom paine 2]

left Illinois 17 years ago for Wisconsin. Helped elect Governor Walker three times looking forward to a fourth time.
Haven’t been back since. It is a nest of entitled Public employees and “teachers”.

[wyowolf]

Cheyenne or Casper are great, if you like hurricane force winds a lot of the year. and yes I mean hurricane force.
80-100 MPH is not uncommon...
If I wasnt born there, I would hate it :)

[HangnJudge]

— Any suggestions

East Tennessee is very nice...

[I Drive Too Fast]

I remember 80 - 100 below zero wind chill readings in Great Falls, Montana in the late 70’s.

[SkyDancer]

Guess they’ll have to start taxing welfare recipients (EBT); 22% tax on EBT cards.

[who_would_fardels_bear]

You need to move somewhere that’s not particularly attractive with bad weather, e.g. North Dakota.

[wyowolf]

Ah yes...good times...

[qaz123]

Fleeing in record numbers and ruining whatever place they settle in.

Like locusts.

They bitch and moan about all of it, but they don’t realize that they are conditioned by it, as well. When they move south, lured by lower taxes, better weather and lower cost of living, they end up ruining it, because they want all the same services that they left behind.

[JesusIsLord]

Any suggestions

How about Montana or Wyoming?

[Graybeard58]

Cheyenne or Casper are great, if you like hurricane force winds a lot of the year. and yes I mean hurricane force.
80-100 MPH is not uncommon...
If I wasnt born there, I would hate it

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My wife and I were in Cheyenne on business for two weeks and agreed - nice place to visit but not enough oxygen. Several hundred feet higher than the “mile high city.”

[niteowl77]

Iowa (1,900)

The good news - for Illinois - is that of those 1,900 leaving Illinois for Iowa, 1,800 of them are convicted felons and their dependents from Chicago, Rockford or Freeport who have relocated to Iowa communities along US20, US30 and I-80.

[minnesota_bound]

Either leave on your own or get shot.