Illinois’ Shrinking Tax Base: Residents Are Leaving & Taking Their Incomes With Them
12th August 2019
There’s perhaps no indicator more damning of a state’s failure to govern than the flight of its residents to other states.
People of every stripe are leaving Illinois. Old and young, rich and poor. They are going to warm states and cold states, big states and small states. Overall, Illinois netted losses of residents to 43 other states in 2016.
And who could blame them?