AT: The rich have the means to vote with their feet, and Chicago’s millionaires are apparently not shy about expressing their preferences.
Per a report by the research company New World Wealth, about 2% of Chicago residents with a million dollars or more (not including their primary residence) fled the city, citing racial tensions and the high crime rate. That’s more than 3,000 individuals who decided to get while the going is good. more here
I expect the Chicago / Cook County govt gang to try the same crap the feddles do: declare that residents leaving its turf are still subject to future taxes regardless of where they try to hide. Damned leeches.
This bothers me a lot because when they flee an area, they bring their “values” with them and start screwing up their new community.
People aren’t just fleeing Chicago, they’re leaving the state of Illinois. I sure did after 40 years.
Here’s who else is fleeing Chicago: retired city workers. These parasites, who voted democrat for decades to enrich themselves, are taking their cushy retirement monies to northwest Indiana and elsewhere where the taxes are less. It’s bad enough that many of them retire in their late 40’s or early 50’s with about 80% of their pay and their tax payer funded health insurance, they don’t even stick around the city to pay their “fair share” of the taxes imposed by the very people they voted into office.
Hypocrites is another word for these “social justice refugees” who preach to us about how they can afford to pay more in taxes, fail to do so and then flee the jurisdiction to a State with no income tax.
They always can “afford” more programs for the poor — especially when they don’t have to pay for them.
White flight is always painted as a bad thing, ignoring why it happens is whats bad.
The article wants to blame the exodus on the fear of street thugs but totally ignores the fear of thug Democrats.
@Joe – and the difference is…?
@Uncle Al
The difference. It’s how they wear their pants.
The thugs wear their pants baggy and about 6 to 8 inches below their waist.
Democrat thugs wear their pants around their ankles, always ready to screw the tax payers of Illinois.
Both will steal you blind.
Ass holes in Europe are doing the same thing. The filthy rich European liberals funded the elections of the left, which ended up sinking Europe. Now that Europe is swirling the toilet bowl, the rich European liberals are headed off to screw up some other parts of the world.
Can’t blame the hypocrites – they may have fucked everything up, but the know the stench of impending disaster when they smell it.
izlamo delenda est …
“they know” not “the know”
Sheesh!