Will The USA Suffer The Same Fate As Obama's Illinois?
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Goodbye Illinois84/11
Former State Senator and Republican Cook County Board President
candidate Roger Keats and his wife Tina are leaving Illinois to live in
Texas. They bid farewell to their Illinois friends in a Wilmette Beacon
article and with this letter this weekend, saying they're "voting with
their feet and their wallets":
GOOD BYE AND GOOD LUCK
As we leave Illinois for good, I wanted to say goodbye to my
friends and wish all of you well. I am a lifelong son of the heartland
and proud of it. After 60 years, I leave Illinois with a heavy heart.
BUT enough is enough! The leaders of Illinois refuse to see we cant
continue going in the direction we are and expect people who have
options to stay here. I remember when Illinois had 25 congressmen. In
2012 we will have 18. Compared to the rest of the country we have lost
1/4rd of our population. Dont blame the weather, because I love 4 seasons.
Illinois just sold still more bonds and our credit rating is so bad
we pay higher interest rates than junk bonds! Junk Bonds! Illinois is
ranked 50th for fiscal policy; 47th in job creation; 1st in unfunded
pension liabilities; 2nd largest budget deficit; 1st in failing schools;
1st in bonded indebtedness; highest sales tax in the nation; most judges
indicted (Operations Greylord and Gambat); and 5 of our last 9 elected
governors have been indicted. That is more than the other 49 states
added together! Then add 32 Chicago Aldermen and (according to the
Chicago Tribune) over 1000 state and municipal employees indicted. The
corruption tax is a real cost of doing business. We are the butt of
jokes for stand up comics.
We live in the most corrupt big city, in the most corrupt big
county in the most corrupt state in America .. I am sick and tired of
subsidizing crooks. A day rarely passes without an article about the
corruption and incompetence. Chicago even got caught rigging the tests
to hire police and fire! Our Crook County CORPORATE property tax system
is intentionally corrupt. The Democrat State Chairman who is also the
Speaker of the Illinois House (Spkr. Mike Madigan) and the most senior
alderman in Chicago each make well over a million dollars a year putting
the fix in for their clients tax assessments.
We are moving to Texas where there is no income tax while Illinois
just went up 67%. Texas sales tax is � of ours, which is the highest in
the nation. Southern states are supportive of job producers, tax payers
and folks who offer opportunities to their residents. Illinois shakes
them down for every penny that can be extorted from them.
In The Hill Country of Texas (near Austin and San Antonio ) we
bought a gracious home on almost 2 acres with a swimming pool. It is
new, will cost us around 40% of what our home in Wilmette just sold for
and the property taxes are 1/3rd of what they are here. Cook County' s
property tax system is a disaster: Wilmette homes near ours sell for 50%
more and their property taxes are � of ours. Our assessed home value
was 50% higher than the sales price. The system is unfair and incompetent.
Our home value is down 40%, our property taxes are up 20% and our
local schools have still another referendum on the ballot to increase
taxes over 20% in one year. I could go on, but enough is enough. I
feel as if we are standing on the deck of the Titanic and I can see the
icebergs right in front of us. I will miss our friends a great deal. I
have called Illinois home for essentially my entire life. But it is
time to go where there is honest, competent and cost effective
government. We have chosen to vote with our feet and our wallets. My
best to all of you and Good luck!
AND DON�T FORGET-- ILLINOIS IS WHERE BARACK OBAMA STARTED.
WHO KNOWS WHERE HE COMES FROM
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It is hardly too strong to say that the Constitution was made to guard
the people against the dangers of good intentions. There are men in all
ages who mean to govern well, but *They mean to govern*. They promise to
be good masters, *but they mean to be masters*. Daniel Webster