Da Guru
Fair & Balanced
Illinois will tax anything. That is why people are fleeing the state.
It’s known in Illinois as The Exodus. Illinois’ population has declined by 157,000 residents over the past five years, making it one of only two states — West Virginia is the other — to lose people over the past decade.
A 2016 poll by Southern Illinois University found that nearly half of Illinois residents wanted to move to another state, citing high taxes, ineffective and corrupt local government and a lack of middle-class jobs. A March poll from the university found that two-thirds of Illinois residents think the state is going in the wrong direction.
