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The most dysfunctional state in America? Soaring unemployment, sky-rocketing debt and punishing taxes send residents fleeing (Illinois)
UK Daily Mail ^ | May 3 2024 | LEWIS PENNOCK

Posted on 05/03/2024 10:35:44 AM PDT by knighthawk

Move over California and New York, a new state is in contention for the 'most dysfunctional' in America.

Illinois is grappling with a string of issues which have triggered a rise in residents departing the state.

The state has struggled to add jobs and its public pension debt has ballooned to nearly $150 billion. Meanwhile, its population has declined, hurting tax income.

(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...


TOPICS: News/Current Events; US: Illinois
KEYWORDS: anarchotyranny; dysfunction; dystopia; illinois; taxes

1 posted on 05/03/2024 10:35:44 AM PDT by knighthawk
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To: knighthawk

State of Prixter


2 posted on 05/03/2024 10:36:54 AM PDT by xoxox
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To: knighthawk

Do they still have those toll booths every five feet along the freeway? I was so glad to reach the Wisconsin border.


3 posted on 05/03/2024 10:38:36 AM PDT by Luke21
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To: knighthawk

The people fleeing the state, are likely a large part of the voting public that brought into power those that made the state a shithole, which means that, those fleeing are also responsible for making Illinois the shithole that it has become.


4 posted on 05/03/2024 10:40:04 AM PDT by adorno (CCH)
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To: knighthawk

Illinois has had a hard core communist cell operating for years. And yes, they took over several of the colleges in the vicinity (including Notre Dame in nearby Indiana and the U of Wisconsin) too.

This commie cell helped groom and channel the Saudi and SorozNazi $$ for the illegal (Obama).

It is very active and very well funded. It continues to be permitted to operate, apparently (?) with no action whatsoever to shut it down.

As for Illinois being the worst state to live in, likely true but NY and Californication are very very close seconds.


5 posted on 05/03/2024 10:41:54 AM PDT by faithhopecharity (“Politicians are not born. They're excreted.” Marcus Tillius Cicero (106 to 43 BCE))
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To: knighthawk
Lots of heated competition for most dysfunctional state.

Illinois is at the top of the list but California and Washington State are neck and neck with the.

6 posted on 05/03/2024 10:44:42 AM PDT by rdcbn1
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To: adorno

Cook county runs Illinois. The state is exactly what we are going be if they eliminate the EC.


7 posted on 05/03/2024 10:49:51 AM PDT by gibsonguy ( )
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To: knighthawk

Another Democrat hell-hole state which Chicago voters keep subjecting the otherwise conservative state to.


8 posted on 05/03/2024 10:56:24 AM PDT by Obadiah
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To: knighthawk

I’m sure that if they double down on socialism a couple more times, they’ll be right as rain. And if not, they can always blame someone else for their problems, so win-win.


9 posted on 05/03/2024 11:13:23 AM PDT by rightwingcrazy (;-,)
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To: knighthawk

Did Illinois ever get gas stations to accept state credit cards?


10 posted on 05/03/2024 11:35:16 AM PDT by VanShuyten ("...that all the donkeys were dead. I know nothing as to the fate of the less valuable animals)
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To: knighthawk

Governor Creosote has been an unmitigated disaster for this State.

L


11 posted on 05/03/2024 11:45:27 AM PDT by Lurker ( Peaceful coexistence with the Left is not possible. Stop pretending that it is.)
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To: knighthawk

We were driving back to Indiana from Ohio last weekend, and saw a car with a White Sox/ Illinois license plate. In the back window was a sticker that said S*#! Hole with the outline of Illinois in between the two words. I’m sure that person agrees with this article.


12 posted on 05/03/2024 12:21:10 PM PDT by FamiliarFace (I got my own way of livin' But everything gets done With a southern accent Where I come from. TPetty)
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To: knighthawk

Chicago is tornado warned Tuesday.


13 posted on 05/03/2024 12:38:16 PM PDT by TornadoAlley3 ( I'm Proud To Be An Okie From Muskogee)
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To: knighthawk

Don’t come to Texas


14 posted on 05/03/2024 1:48:00 PM PDT by BigFreakinToad (Remember the Biden Kitchen Fire of 2004)
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To: gibsonguy
See Scotus’ 1964 Reynolds v. Sims ruling.

Citing a non-existent “one man one vote” principle, eight Warren Court black-robes ruled that state legislative districts must be of approximately equal populations.

At the time, Senator Dirksen of Illinois warned that Chicago would come to dominate Springfield. He was right; due to Reynolds, Illinois is near bankruptcy and losing population as people flee high taxes, higher unemployment, and societal destruction.

If Your State is a Mess.

15 posted on 05/03/2024 2:02:08 PM PDT by Jacquerie (ArticleVBlog.com)
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To: Jacquerie

It definitely needs to be revised and repealed if the right test case can be found! It would solve a lot of problems for a dozen states or so.


16 posted on 05/03/2024 2:06:30 PM PDT by Reily (!!)
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To: faithhopecharity

“Illinois has had a hard core communist cell operating for years.”

Growing up in the Chicago suburbs in the 60’s I knew that dead people could vote.

In the mid 70’s my Dad got a job offer to move us to a corn field in Indiana.

Dad was ecstatic!

The corruption in Chicago p.o.ed him major.


17 posted on 05/03/2024 5:13:58 PM PDT by lizma2
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