By Mish Shedlock of MishTalk
For the tenth consecutive yr, Illinois misplaced inhabitants. Solely West Virginia was worse.
Illinois Inhabitants Drops 10 Consecutive Years
The Illinois Coverage Institute experiences 10th Consecutive Year of Population Decline.
Surveys of those that have left the state – the place taxes should not a response choice – confirmed the major reasons Illinoisans have chosen to depart the state have been for higher housing and employment alternatives, each of which have been made worse by poor public coverage in Illinois.
Excessive taxes have been the No. 1 motive why Illinoisans thought of leaving the state. Polling from NPR Illinois and the University of Illinois discovered 61% of Illinoisans considered transferring out of state in 2019, and the No. 1 motive was taxes. The Paul Simon Public Policy Institute discovered 47% of Illinoisans wished to depart the state, and “taxes are the only greatest motive individuals need to go away” with 27% of respondents citing taxes because the motive for departing in 2016. More moderen polling carried out by Echelon Insights in 2023 substantiated these sentiments.
A tenth yr of residents leaving Illinois ought to be a wake-up name to the state’s leaders, who refuse to undertake insurance policies that may make it simpler for residents to remain in Illinois. Reforms that may ease Illinoisans’ tax burden or scale back arduous enterprise rules are wanted to make the state extra inexpensive and cease the departures.
Anticipating Change is Insanity
Anybody who thinks Illinois will change is delusional. The one escape from Illinois insanity is by leaving Illinois. Simply don’t go to states equally unhealthy if not worse, particularly California, but in addition New York and New Jersey.
Flashback 2019: Escape Illinois – Get The Hell Out Now, We Are
On October 5, 2019 I wrote Escape Illinois – Get The Hell Out Now, We Are. In July of 2020 we left.
I famous then that It Takes 3 Weeks to Escape Illinois. The rationale it took three weeks is that’s how lengthy it took to get a one-way U-Haul.
“Everyone seems to be leaving. Nobody is coming,” a U-Haul agent informed us.
To those that have escaped, congratulations.
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