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2018-06-27 Economy

Working-age Illinois Residents Are Fleeing the State Amid Debt Crisis

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Posted by Besoeker 2018-06-27 03:00|| || Front Page|| [1 views ] Top

#1 Illinois's working-age population declined by 41,000 from... July 1960 ~~2016~~ to July 2017,

There, fixed it. Uncertain as to the actual number of people who have left over that period, but imdoubtedly in the hundreds of thousands.

Posted by Besoeker 2018-06-27 03:13|| 2018-06-27 03:13|| Front Page Top

#2 I arrived in Illinois in '67 and left for good in '70, no desire to return.

Posted by AlanC 2018-06-27 07:45|| 2018-06-27 07:45|| Front Page Top

#3 When you have judges reintroducing serfdom to fund impossible public employee retirement programs (made by two wolves negotiating how to carve up the sheep), the peasants have a tendency to flee the land. But, who pays attention to history.

Posted by Procopius2k 2018-06-27 08:26|| 2018-06-27 08:26|| Front Page Top

#4 But, who pays attention to history.
Posted by: Procopius2k

Damn few it seems.

Posted by Besoeker 2018-06-27 09:33|| 2018-06-27 09:33|| Front Page Top

#5 the peasants have a tendency to flee the land. But, who pays attention to history.
The dying Roman empire had the same problem. They attempted to solve it by introducing serfdom and basically enslaved the formerly free peasants to the land they were tilling. This gave the peasants even more reason to bug out and join the barbarians who would soon kick the old Empire to pieces.

Posted by Anguper Hupomosing9418 2018-06-27 10:01|| 2018-06-27 10:01|| Front Page Top

#6 It isn’t clear from this article whether businesses are also leaving the state, or whether workers are merely moving across the border, accepting a slightly longer commute in exchange for significantly lower taxes.

Posted by trailing wife 2018-06-27 18:20|| 2018-06-27 18:20|| Front Page Top

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