(Wayne Allyn Root, Las Vegas Review-Journal) – I love Nevada. It’s my adopted state for more than 15 years now. I spent the first 40 years of my life living in New York and California. Those are the high-tax places that people are running away from in droves.
Now add in Chicago. There aren’t enough moving vans to satisfy the demand for all the people running away from high-tax Illinois. In the past year, 114,000 citizens escaped from Illinois. The state is losing one resident every 4.6 minutes. That’s the fastest rate ever.
Since 2000, Illinois has lost the population of Joliet, Springfield, Peoria, Naperville, Elgin, Champaign, Arlington Heights, Rockford, Aurora and Waukegan combined.
There is no mistaking why this happened — and it’s not because of cold weather. This all happened at the same time and in response to a massive state income tax and sales and property tax increases. According to IRS data, that loss of population comes with a loss of $30,000 of taxable income every 4.6 minutes.
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