....Puerto Rico which is already bankrupt voted to become a state....
Maybe the rest of everyone outside of Chicago should do the same and declare their independence from Chicago. Maybe Madison, Wisconsin should annex the Chicago area.
Unfortunately your scenario would hit the wall of economic power. Chicago’s economy dominates the state and region.
And there is the irony that the Blue States pay the majority of federal taxes and export that money to the Red states. It could succeed as an independent city-state but the rest of the state would go to hell in a handbasket and their economies bankrupted.
BTAIM, the article should not speak of the Governor in a race to the bottom. He is like the Little Dutch Boy with his finger in the dike. If he folds a new wave of taxes will flood the state and not a penny will be cut.