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Originally Posted by sebastian_dangerfield
I'm not blaming him for it, but in his situation, he has no business criticizing anyone. I understand giving a speech on how Trump's an awful bully is political catnip. And I think his comment that he is an actual billionaire as opposed to Trump was very funny.
But defending anything Illinois does is, well, indefensible. It's an economic disaster zone of epic proportions. Nobody in charge of anything in that state has any basis to lecture anyone in charge of anything elsewhere, Ever.
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I won't defend the past (because the pension issues are indeed a mess), but based on conversations I've had from people who have moved here from Georgia, Texas, and other lesser taxed states, you get a decent return on your (high) taxes here in the form of: great (suburban) public schools, great park districts and great forest preserves.
The people who have moved here said that they would have paid significantly more in their previous states because they would have needed to send their kids to expensive private schools to match the education they're getting here.
One of my good friends moved to Washington (state), and he said his local park district offers about 1/3 of the activities for kids as his old (my) suburb.
It's not perfect by any means, but I complain less about the taxes than i used to.
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