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Originally Posted by Did you just call me Coltrane?
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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I live in a neighborhood with an excellent public school. And this state is not a financial disaster.
Pritzker is presiding over a state that so mismanaged it has often been described as not merely bankrupt, but nearly insolvent.
It is not his fault, you are correct. And the issue isn't taxes. I don't think Pritzker could ever tax enough to fix Illinois. If all of Chicago were taxed at 100% for a couple years, the income still wouldn't appreciably dent the state pension obligations.
A whole lotta people kicked the can for a whole lotta years, and now, like the US, the state is running out of road to kick it down any further.
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