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Why all the outrage about NC, but not a peep about Illinois?

thank you . Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays to you and yours.

Well you can say Merry Christmas , outstanding ! :applaud
And a Merry Christmas to you and yours .
 
The Banana Republic of Illinois
Stephen Moore, Investor's Business Daily

The media has hyper-obsessed over the Kansas tax hike this year and has sold this as a repudiation of "supply side economics." But the real story in the states has been the catastrophic effects of "tax and spend" fiscal policy in Illinois.
Last week Republican Gov. Bruce Rauner continued his three-year standoff with House Speaker for Life Mike Madigan's liberal Democratic machine over a $5 billion annual income-tax hike. The Democrats have dug in their heels.
Anyone who thinks this soak-the-rich scheme will solve Illinois' long-term budget crisis should have their head examined. Illinois already ranks in the top three among the 50 states in state-local tax burden, so if raising taxes were any kind of solution here, the Land of Lincoln would be a Garden of Eden.
Instead the state has been a financial basket case for years. . . .
 
Anything the NC legislature is trying to do is penny ante compared to how things are done in Illinois.

Madiganistan | City Journal

Illinois is the last remnant of what was once a powerful Democrat Party. I tried to explain to my wife that all the negatives she sees today in the GOP was once common practice by the D back when she was still ****ting green. It didn't sell well. I guess she is too young.
 
The Banana Republic of Illinois
Stephen Moore, Investor's Business Daily

The media has hyper-obsessed over the Kansas tax hike this year and has sold this as a repudiation of "supply side economics." But the real story in the states has been the catastrophic effects of "tax and spend" fiscal policy in Illinois.
Last week Republican Gov. Bruce Rauner continued his three-year standoff with House Speaker for Life Mike Madigan's liberal Democratic machine over a $5 billion annual income-tax hike. The Democrats have dug in their heels.
Anyone who thinks this soak-the-rich scheme will solve Illinois' long-term budget crisis should have their head examined. Illinois already ranks in the top three among the 50 states in state-local tax burden, so if raising taxes were any kind of solution here, the Land of Lincoln would be a Garden of Eden.
Instead the state has been a financial basket case for years. . . .

LOL. Stephen Moore.

A newspaper fact-checks its own right-wing op-ed; hilarity ensues - LA Times
 
The leftist media and media and message boards like to beat up on Kansas too.

But they leave Illinois pretty much alone. Yes?

I don't see them leaving Illinois alone, though I'm in an adjoining state and it is more prevalent locally, I'll grant that. Oh, and the rightest message boards beat up on Illinois plenty and defend Kansas, so I'm not really sure what the point is here, other than maybe pointing out petty partisanship.

Kansas, btw, deserves every bit of shaming for what they're doing, independent of anything or anybody else. As does Illinois, too.

Illinois, though, has been this effed up for literally decades. Maybe it's such old news that it not news at all anymore, just SOP.
 
Illinois is the last remnant of what was once a powerful Democrat Party. I tried to explain to my wife that all the negatives she sees today in the GOP was once common practice by the D back when she was still ****ting green. It didn't sell well. I guess she is too young.

I applaud your astuteness in scoring a wife significantly younger than you.
 
I don't see them leaving Illinois alone, though I'm in an adjoining state and it is more prevalent locally, I'll grant that. Oh, and the rightest message boards beat up on Illinois plenty and defend Kansas, so I'm not really sure what the point is here, other than maybe pointing out petty partisanship.

Kansas, btw, deserves every bit of shaming for what they're doing, independent of anything or anybody else. As does Illinois, too.

Illinois, though, has been this effed up for literally decades. Maybe it's such old news that it not news at all anymore, just SOP.

Madigan has gone to court to block amendments on the ballot to help resolve this mess. He has an inherent conflict of interest in raising taxes, his law firm specializes in property tax abatement. He has promulgated so much power into his speakership that literally no bill goes for a vote before he approves it, committee approval or no. Madigan has entirely too much legislative power in Illinois. He is corrupt to the core.
 
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