Comments on: Survey: Illinois third worst state for business http://rockrivertimes.com/2011/09/21/survey-illinois-third-worst-state-for-business/ The Rock River Times - THE VOICE OF THE COMMUNITY SINCE 1993 Tue, 18 Jun 2013 05:33:27 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 hourly 1 By: Curt http://rockrivertimes.com/2011/09/21/survey-illinois-third-worst-state-for-business/comment-page-1/#comment-3540 Curt Mon, 26 Sep 2011 10:31:48 +0000 http://rockrivertimes.com/?p=33177#comment-3540 If Quinn would have taken the tax increase and used that to pay down the debt, IL would be looking better, but the Mighty Quinn submitted a budget that had MORE SPENDING than the previous year. Now the MIGHTY QUINN has the balls to break a legal contract by taking away pay raises and blames the legislature for not passing his whole budget and not allowing him enough money to pay the bills. The nonsense of quoting a small magazine saying that Chicago is #1 Metro area for corporate expansion is laughable. I bet they worked long hours to find that one..... The tax breaks given to keep companies from leaving the state will hurt is later. The increase in spending will hurt us later. Quinn has no clue that stimulating the state economy will lead to a better/more sustainable increase in revenue. The tax increase is a short term solution which will result in a loss of revenue longer term, and that will also hurt us in the end. Quinn is a joke. I still do not understand how he won the election with only two counties in his column... but unfortunately for the great people of IL, one of those counties was Cook which the people of Chicago reside. That was enough to put him over the top. Any guess's why all of Quinn's policies benefit Chicago and no where else in the state? If Quinn would have taken the tax increase and used that to pay down the debt, IL would be looking better, but the Mighty Quinn submitted a budget that had MORE SPENDING than the previous year. Now the MIGHTY QUINN has the balls to break a legal contract by taking away pay raises and blames the legislature for not passing his whole budget and not allowing him enough money to pay the bills.

The nonsense of quoting a small magazine saying that Chicago is #1 Metro area for corporate expansion is laughable. I bet they worked long hours to find that one…..

The tax breaks given to keep companies from leaving the state will hurt is later. The increase in spending will hurt us later. Quinn has no clue that stimulating the state economy will lead to a better/more sustainable increase in revenue. The tax increase is a short term solution which will result in a loss of revenue longer term, and that will also hurt us in the end.

Quinn is a joke. I still do not understand how he won the election with only two counties in his column… but unfortunately for the great people of IL, one of those counties was Cook which the people of Chicago reside. That was enough to put him over the top.

Any guess’s why all of Quinn’s policies benefit Chicago and no where else in the state?

]]> By: John http://rockrivertimes.com/2011/09/21/survey-illinois-third-worst-state-for-business/comment-page-1/#comment-3527 John Thu, 22 Sep 2011 13:39:02 +0000 http://rockrivertimes.com/?p=33177#comment-3527 Leave it to the Quinn administration to sugar-coat the problem! It has been said that Pat Quinn always thinks he is the smartest guy in the room...what a fool! This state is sinking fast and Quinn's too dumb to see it. The truth is that we are worse off here than in most of the country, and things are getting even worse by the day. Almost everyday, I pick up the Tribune and read about another company shutting down and heading to Indiana or Wisconsin. Let's look at a few facts; "Bad for business" means JOB LOSSES! Businesses hire people, and fire them when they pack up and leave. A number of companies have done just that. Conventions are avoiding Chicago because of the ridiculus costs...more job losses. This isn't even including the "highest in the nation" taxes visitors are stuck with in Chicago. The few companies Quinn has managed to "bribe" into staying will come back to haunt us...look for that cost in a future tax bill. Olin down in Alton is slowly bleeding off it's Illinois workforce and moving the operations to Mississippi. Quinn's last tax increase did not solve this states problems, so Quinn is back with his borrowing schemes to put us even further into debt. Quinn is the most wasteful and abusive Governor ever, appointing his friends and allies to useless, but high-paying boards and commissions that suck the life out of taxpayers. And then there's people like me. People who can't wait to sell their homes and get the hell out of this cesspool. And finally, Quinn has people like Kelly Jakubek babbling on about how Chicago is the #1 Metro area for corporate expansion in 2010. Seriously? Does anyone really believe this nonsense. Leave it to the Quinn administration to sugar-coat the problem! It has been said that Pat Quinn always thinks he is the smartest guy in the room…what a fool! This state is sinking fast and Quinn’s too dumb to see it.

The truth is that we are worse off here than in most of the country, and things are getting even worse by the day. Almost everyday, I pick up the Tribune and read about another company shutting down and heading to Indiana or Wisconsin.

Let’s look at a few facts;

“Bad for business” means JOB LOSSES! Businesses hire people, and fire them when they pack up and leave. A number of companies have done just that.

Conventions are avoiding Chicago because of the ridiculus costs…more job losses. This isn’t even including the “highest in the nation” taxes visitors are stuck with in Chicago.

The few companies Quinn has managed to “bribe” into staying will come back to haunt us…look for that cost in a future tax bill.

Olin down in Alton is slowly bleeding off it’s Illinois workforce and moving the operations to Mississippi.

Quinn’s last tax increase did not solve this states problems, so Quinn is back with his borrowing schemes to put us even further into debt.

Quinn is the most wasteful and abusive Governor ever, appointing his friends and allies to useless, but high-paying boards and commissions that suck the life out of taxpayers.

And then there’s people like me. People who can’t wait to sell their homes and get the hell out of this cesspool.

And finally, Quinn has people like Kelly Jakubek babbling on about how Chicago is the #1 Metro area for corporate expansion in 2010. Seriously? Does anyone really believe this nonsense.

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