Leave Illinois as soon as possible

Here is a message for all the folks all living high off the hog as successful small business owners or highly paid jobholders, who bemoan how horrible Illinois is on them financially. Please do what you so often threaten to do; leave Illinois as fast as you can. You can go to one of 8 states that have no income tax at all (2 of which just on dividends and interest), or the 3 that have a lower income tax. The other 38 have a higher state income tax than Illinois, so your options are limited.

We don't need you carrying around a huge loaf of bread under each arm; then crying about the few crumbs scraped off by the state to serve the commons and uplift the needy. You have a hole in your soul regarding your fellow Illinoisans that will never be filled, even if you kept every buck that comes your affluent way.

Once you're gone, those of us who have been blessed with material comfort and a reverence for the commons will create a business environment that will uplift Illinoisans at the bottom while growing Illinois business. We've already implemented minimum wage hikes over the the next five years giving nearly a million Illinoisans relief from current slave wages. Those increases will all be spent on neglected necessities, fueling business growth. It will not hoarded like the extra money you folks receive with low tax rates and loopholes galore. We support the proposed fair progressive income tax that is the only sensible remedy to fund infrastructure, mental health, early childhood development, crime prevention and superior education.

We won't miss you because your ranks will be filled quickly by entrepreneurs and innovators, who have a heart and a soul, as well as the Midas Touch.

Oh yes, as the saying goes: Don't let the door... on the way out.