North Egypt News

Franklin County conservative activist Karen Tucker laments one doesn’t have to look far to see the impact Illinois’ runaway tax system is having on the struggling state.

“Indiana actually has billboards up now and they’ve been recruiting our businesses for years because the business climate is so hostile,” Tucker told the North Egypt News. “There’s nothing like running off everyone that actually might generate some income for the state.”

A new report by the Tax Foundation details how the state’s competitive position would dramatically fall if the progressive tax proposal Gov. J.B. Pritzker has been pushing since his days as a candidate becomes law. If the measure passes, researchers report Illinois’ overall ranking for business competitiveness would tumble all the way down to 47th in the U.S., ahead of only New Jersey, California and New York.

“I’m not sure what they’re trying to achieve or if they’re just being delusional,” she added. “The truth is at some point people leave any state when you continue to create an environment that’s so adverse to business it puts them at a disadvantage.”

Tucker argues all of it serves as just another example of why change is so critically needed in Springfield and why next month’s general election is so important.

“We’ve got too many politicians that are only concerned with power and not serving,” she said. “You see that when you have someone like Pritzker, a multi-billionaire, running the state. There’s nothing he wants for and no policy there is that he gets hurt by. With him, it’s all about power, where he has absolutely nothing at stake. The best politics is when it’s about public service and civic duty.”