Posted by 3Dee on December 30, 2018, 9:57 pm, in reply to "Re: Can you hear it?"
If it were solely the problem of the Democrats...surely the Republican controlled state of Missouri would have fixed St. Louis by now.
I already admitted that Madigan and his machine are the main problem for the things that beguile the state of the State of Illinois. I do not question that.
However, in spite of that, there are areas of Illinois that are prospering.
Chicago is not a perfect and has its messes, but in spite of that, there is plenty of investment in the nation's third largest city.
I am just saying this mentality of scapegoating it on the Democrats in the Statehouse will solve nothing. If it did, then the Republicans would have cleaned up Missouri's messes long ago.
Also -- speaking of how your taxes go to fix Chicagoan. I think if you knew the truth on that, Chicago gets the benefit of about .94 of every tax dollar paid to the State. The Metro East....about $1.30.
A study from SIU Carbondale debunks that notion that all the money is taken from Southern Illinois and sent to Chicago. The tax rates may be unjust -- but it's just not true that the people 'downstate' are funding the 'messes' in Chicago.
This is the empirical proof -- the stuff that the conservative biased media won't be telling you any time soon --- that it's really the Chicago area that funds the rest of the state.
DuPage county only gets .31 back for every dollar they give to the state. Madison County is one of the more even states, enjoying 1.10 on the dollar. Some other counties even get 6.00 back on the dollar.