The Taxin’ Illini
21st March 2009
Mr. Quinn ran as Mr. Blagojevich’s Lieutenant Governor on a platform of no new taxes. But now he defends his huge tax increase by saying this will only hit those who have the “ability to pay.” Of course, employers and the wealthy also have the ability to leave — which they have been doing. In the last decade 736,000 more Americans have left Illinois than have entered, according to U.S. Census Bureau data.
It’s amazing how many politicians and bureaucrats believe that taxpayers, like sheep, will stand still and be fleeced. When they don’t, of course, the immediate reaction is to attempt to shave them on the way out — as witness the many proposals in Congress for confiscatory taxation on American citizens who are tired of being bled white and decide to leave for greener pastures.