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Originally Posted by OrdoSeclorum
If that's the case, then Chicago and Illinois have an extremely easy path to go from being merely prosperous to being a globally significant economic region. Most problems don't have solutions require investment and aren't as easy as "remove some unnecessary laws."
Me, I think it's obvious that Chicago was the most significant manufacturing center of not just the Midwest, but the world, for decades. The almost complete transformation of that industry is a generational drag that we're just starting to fully recover from. Coupled with that is an aging population that will continue to retire away from employment centers for the next decade.
If we can sustain modest growth and leverage our significant assets until 2030, Illinois will be in a position to take advantage of those assets without having to drop our pants.
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^ It's not just regulations, but it's the self-serving nature of Government, and the burden that creates on society.
In Illinois, increasingly it seems that Government in part exists to tax the public in order to pay salaries and pensions, as opposed to providing necessary services efficiently to society.
There is no better real life example than Illinois' piss poor distribution of the Covid vaccine right now. Literally this is ONE area where Government is really needed, and it's doing a miserable job.