“”Rising from $30.6 billion in 2011 to $36.4 billion in 2012, Illinois’ state tax increase”” resulted in layoffs and business closures. The $6 billion in additional taxes collected was used for unemployement payments, welfare payments, etc. In so many words raising taxes was a losing proposition.
And the high crime in Illinois is another reason residents are fleeing the state.
USA Today
Apr 24, 2013
Illinois State Police as confirming that 5 people were shot to death in a home in Manchester, a village of 350 people located is 85 north of St. Louis.
WLDS quotes Manchester police as saying that a suspect is in custody.
The pastor of Manchester Baptist Church tells KSDK-TV that the shootings took place inside a public housing complex. At least one of the victims is a child, according to the Scott County Sheriff’s Department.