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Mayor Rahm Emanuel announced that he won’t run for a third term next February.
And so people are leaving Chicago. Where will they go when the whole nation is ruled by the Blue Model? They will have no choice outside of leaving the country but to accept a lower standard of living.
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*What is the Blue Model? Briefly, generous welfare and government services paid for by high taxes. In Chicago this includes big pensions and salaries for public sector unions, tax money to benefit certain elite and well connected groups of people.
Mayor Rahm Emanuel announced that he won’t run for a third term next February.
Emanuel sees no way to get the Blue Model* to work in Chicago, and the Blue Model is what Democrats propose for the whole nation.Should readers from outside Chicagoland care? Yes, because Emanuel’s surprise exit is a sign of the unworkability of policies that will go national if Resistance Democrats oust Donald Trump...
Chicago and Illinois have been hobbled by metastasizing pension obligations, frozen in place by state courts and state House speaker Michael Madigan. Taxes have been rising: Shoppers on North Michigan Avenue pay the nation’s highest taxes.
And so people are leaving Chicago. Where will they go when the whole nation is ruled by the Blue Model? They will have no choice outside of leaving the country but to accept a lower standard of living.
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*What is the Blue Model? Briefly, generous welfare and government services paid for by high taxes. In Chicago this includes big pensions and salaries for public sector unions, tax money to benefit certain elite and well connected groups of people.