The 2010s will likely end up being a lost decade for Illinois.
The Chicago Tribune reports that the state has lost 1.2 percent of its population-159,700 people-over the course of the decade.
Illinois lost more residents in the 2010s than any other state, though West Virginia lost a larger share of its residents.
In the process, Illinois slipped from being the fifth-largest state to the sixth, with Pennsylvania overtaking it in 2017.
You have to wonder whether anybody there made the connection between the state's dropping unemployment rate and the state's drop in population.
Illinois' weed taxes aren't quite as high as the ones in California, but it's still notable that the Golden State's high taxes mean the state is bringing in less than a third of its projected tax revenues from legal sales.
Illinois spent much of 2010 serving as a warning that states cannot tax themselves into prosperity and cannot thrive by using so much of their budget to line the pockets of government employees.
https://reason.com/2020/01/02/illinois-spent-the-last-decade-losing-population-and-learning-nothing/
The Chicago Tribune reports that the state has lost 1.2 percent of its population-159,700 people-over the course of the decade.
Illinois lost more residents in the 2010s than any other state, though West Virginia lost a larger share of its residents.
In the process, Illinois slipped from being the fifth-largest state to the sixth, with Pennsylvania overtaking it in 2017.
You have to wonder whether anybody there made the connection between the state's dropping unemployment rate and the state's drop in population.
Illinois' weed taxes aren't quite as high as the ones in California, but it's still notable that the Golden State's high taxes mean the state is bringing in less than a third of its projected tax revenues from legal sales.
Illinois spent much of 2010 serving as a warning that states cannot tax themselves into prosperity and cannot thrive by using so much of their budget to line the pockets of government employees.
https://reason.com/2020/01/02/illinois-spent-the-last-decade-losing-population-and-learning-nothing/
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