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Originally Posted by the urban politician
Cringeworthy post.
Do you even know why the taxes are being raised?
I feel like I just read the post of a sixteen year old girl who still thinks that a shining young prince is going to swoop in and whisk her off her feet.
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You're deflecting. As everyone who "hates high taxes" does when it's pointed out that low-tax environments struggle economically and moderately taxed places thrive. If that's acknowledged, the whole thing crumbles.
I've always thought it would be exhausting to have one's ideology built on a foundation as shaky as right-wing tax policy or religion. You'd have to defend nonsense all day because you don't know which crack in the foundation will topple the entire edifice.
Something that's way under-discussed when it comes to Illinois' fiscal mess is how much tax fear mongering in previous decades is responsible for putting us where we are now. Just a *small hike* 20 years ago and we'd avoid all this business. But for as long as there has been work that needs doing, there have been people who've yelled "if we raise taxes, people will leave!" as they snigger behind their fists.