Monday, November 30, 2020

Killing Illinois

Why is Putzker borrowing more money (see 12:01 AM post below)? 

Because the Illinois economy has disappeared:

  • After Black Friday comes Small Business Saturday, when Americans are encouraged to support their local retailers. But there will be over 11,200 fewer Illinoisans running retail stores on Nov. 28, thanks to COVID-19 and state-mandated lockdowns.

    And when it is time to take a shopping break to eat and drink, there will be nearly 17,600 fewer Illinois bar and restaurant owners to serve you.

That's almost 29,000 fewer small stores, bars and restaurants. We don't know what these businesses would have generated in Sales Taxes, but think about this:

  • each of these places carries some sort of License to Operate - state or county or local - or a combination of all three;
  • casino gaming machines at a bunch of these bars are licensed individually;
  • Chicago requires separate licenses for food, liquor, tobacco, signage, etc

29,000 businesses are not generating tens of millions in these fees alone, and that translates into hundreds of millions in sales taxes, not to mention associated businesses, parking, hotels across the entire state.

Go read it all.

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60 Comments:

Anonymous Anonymous said...

re: signage
Get ready for it. It's coming.
Tax on restroom signage.
Only in Chicago.

11/30/2020 12:10:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

After Jan 20th Biden will wave a magic wand and the pandemic will be over. Businesses will return, the economy will bounce back and unemployment will be under 4%. Illinois will be out of debt, the ledger will be in the black, with a surplus.

That has as much a chance of happening as Illinois has of being in the black and running a surplus.

11/30/2020 12:18:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Time to open up your wallet to make up the difference. What? You don’t want to make a donation to the State or City coffers? That’s ok, we are in a deep deep blue state where politicians love to tax tax tax and where they control virtually every gov’t unit and everything in a ONE PARTY state. So this one party has all the power and they will pass legislation allowing them to PURGE your WALLET.

One more step to communism ... thanks assholes for voting in the status quo.

11/30/2020 12:27:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Doctor! Will she be ok? Doctor’s response: “I am sorry to tell you this, but Illinois was DOA.”

Illinois RIP

11/30/2020 12:29:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Illinois RIP 1818 - 2020.

11/30/2020 12:30:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Maybe we can just borrow more money from payday loans to cover the immediate state bills. Then we can plant money trees next spring to cover the difference. If we are still short, we can follow the rainbows for the pot of gold. Any of these are viable options to make up for the fiscal shortfalls but PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE do NOT reduce spending. It just won’t work!

11/30/2020 12:34:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

So has Illinois picked out it’s coffin ⚰️ or will it be cremated? It’s dead already or damn close to it.

11/30/2020 12:36:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Let’s try communism now! That will help. Just ask Venezuela 🇻🇪

11/30/2020 12:37:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Yeah but pot sales..oh those pot sales keep the dispensaries going shut down everything else..what a screwed up place Illinois & Chicago are Merry Christmas & Happy New ye..they've destroyed this place!

11/30/2020 12:42:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

You’d think Gov Pigsker would be alarmed at all the food dispensaries closing.

11/30/2020 12:49:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Illinois was already dead.

11/30/2020 12:50:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Thanks Mayor Migit and Gov Alotofmass

11/30/2020 12:50:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Chicago the global world class city ... my ass ... Illinois and Chicago are more like third world nations.

11/30/2020 12:51:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Let’s import more illegal aliens from third world nations, put them on the gov’t tweet and convince them to vote DemoRat forever. That will help the Illinois economy or so I’m told.

11/30/2020 12:53:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Illinois’ new slogan. “Please move here and help us pay down billions of debt.” I’m sure millions will come from elsewhere in the US.

11/30/2020 12:55:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Lock 'er down, baby! An abundance of caution! If it saves just one life! The voters in this state are stuck on stupid. Tehy won't be satisfied until there are only McDonalds and WalMarts in the state. After all, they're the ones that can weather the idiocy of these democrats and they're the only ones with enough money to buy these corrupt ass holes that the dummies of this state elect.

11/30/2020 01:03:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

The brokers pushing pot stocks like to talk their book.
They mention state tax revenue on sales but neglect
to mention all the closed businesses and loss of license
revenue. I don't think we're moving to a pot economy.

11/30/2020 01:12:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Corona isn’t deadly. It has 99.6% survival rate. Open every thing up. The media has scared enough people. Enough already

11/30/2020 01:16:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

No wonder fat boy had to go to WI not too long ago to wine and dine... All the restaurants in IL are shuttered or will be soon.

Way to be Democrats!

11/30/2020 02:45:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

It is just time to move. Let all the people who are happy stay. Game over.

11/30/2020 02:48:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Can be we sure it was the dog which broke Sleepy Joe's foot?
I heard rumors Biden was holding some pizza and Pritzker bum rushed him, stepping on the frail dementia patient's foot in the process.

While Biden might be 'the big guy' (he gets 10% after all!) to some... When he went against an actual big guy in a sumo match he lost.

The only winners here? Those who view tax hikes as a win.

11/30/2020 02:48:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

“Folks.” You think it’s bad now wait till Biden & Harris get in. He said he would close down the country if the scientists said so. He also believes in a national mask mandate. Cornpop would want it too if he was still around. Collars & leashes next.

11/30/2020 03:00:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Fatty and Larry are hoping Uncle Joe can send a barrel of money over. First they need both seats in Georgia, lets pray to God that doesn't happen.

11/30/2020 03:50:00 AM  
Blogger katikati said...

The whole thing about shutting down a business when it has a license to operate doesn't make sense to me. I wonder if any of those licenses specify that the government (state/local) can essentially revoke it just because they said so.

What's the point of paying for a license if they're not going to let you operate anyway?

11/30/2020 04:14:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Biden is going to bail them out and Putzger knows it. With our tax dollars.

11/30/2020 06:34:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

....more taxes will solve everything...and the band played on.

11/30/2020 06:45:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Killinois

11/30/2020 06:54:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

dont worry SCC!!!

sleepy Joe, and camel toe are going to make it all better

11/30/2020 07:13:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Minding my own business getting gas at Costco when I overhear the guy on the other side of the pump telling the Costco worker that he just moved here from Anchorage, Alaska because he got his dead aunts house super cheap. Says all he needs to do now is find a job and things are going to be sweet. I couldn’t help it. I call out “you’re going to hate it here. It’s the most corrupt state in the country and you’re going to go broke paying taxes. I wouldn’t live here by choice if I didn’t have to.” Five people started clapping and yelling “That’s the TRUTH!”

11/30/2020 07:38:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

The start of democRAT communism

11/30/2020 07:40:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

States and municipalities are running out of money for roads and infrastructure. Many projects have been cancelled or put on hold.

So, COVID could be the first disease in history to cause roads and bridges to be shut down.
Maybe we can call the super-spread of potholes, "COVID-holes".

11/30/2020 07:43:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Anonymous Anonymous said...
“Folks.” You think it’s bad now wait till Biden & Harris get in. He said he would close down the country if the scientists said so. He also believes in a national mask mandate. Cornpop would want it too if he was still around. Collars & leashes next.

11/30/2020 03:00:00 AM**
If masks were to be mandated by Bin Laden, who will enforce that? Certainly, we wont (police that is) I don't give a fuck now if people are not wearing them, we are all adults and make our own decisions in life.

11/30/2020 07:56:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...




The Madigan-Cullerton-Toilet Boy Democrat death spiral accelerates.


11/30/2020 08:11:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Retired guy living in rural Illinois here. Small businesses around my area including bars and restaurants are folding like a broken accordion and are never going to open in probably years. Empty storefronts and closed/for rent signs in many windows. The local beer dispensary that I visit has been around for 70 yrs and is on life support according to the bar maid who works there she told me recently. I live 5 minutes from the Wisconsin border and visit the restaurants, bars, and shops. I also buy gas there as often as possible, usually 5-10cents a gallon cheaper. 5% sales tax on purchased goods as well. It is a shame to see what the lockdowns have done to the local economy but, as usual, the democraps who run the state DON'T CARE!

11/30/2020 08:25:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Sad part is how much the economy is based off the service industry instead of manufacturing or other businesses (computer, software, raw materials or maintenance and repair).

To rely on restaurants and bars for the main source of income is ridiculous.

11/30/2020 08:25:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

I expect the debts irresponsibly run up by Dems in Illinois and elsewhere to be federalized shortly after Dementia Joe and Kamasutra are sworn in.

11/30/2020 08:34:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

This is the biggest scam ever perpetrated on the American people. People are suckers. Sheep.

11/30/2020 08:36:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

The LOCKDOWN will shift to Level 2 in a couple of weeks and will remain there into the Spring.Next on the horizon is the Mandatory Vaccination Program.Without an up to date Vaccination Card you will not be able to enter any public place and will be denied Drivers License and Identification renewal.

11/30/2020 09:02:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Look at the recent mayors of the City of Chicago. Richie Daley, Rahm Emmanuel, and now Lorrie Lightfooot. The demise of the City has been a long time in the making. Look at the history of the State of Illinois. Rauner, Quinn, Blagojevich, Ryan, Edgar, and Thompson. All of them failed because of who? Michael Madigan. Remember when Rauner got criticized when he said the real governor of Illinois was Madigan. That ladies and gentleman is why Illinois is in the shape it is today.

11/30/2020 09:17:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

The feds could bail out the state, pay all the bills, fund the pensions, and in less then 2 years it would be in the same shape it's in now!! Fuck You Fatass!!

Will anyone on here admit to voting DemoRat??

11/30/2020 09:23:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

The Great Reset has long been planned. Obey, fellow Comrade, or off to the gas chambers you’ll go. Now run along and be an obedient and submissive sheep! Make sure to wear masks that don’t stop the virus (90% of US population wearing them yet the virus still spreads, why is that?). While your wearing the mask and virtue signaling what a compassionate sheep you are you’re more likely to get sick from bacterial pneumonia. Make sure to poison your body with a vaccine too. Maybe you’ll become sterile from it and won’t be able to reproduce! Now we’re getting to the real goal of depopulation.

I’m amazed at how many purported “intelligent” people have succumbed to the fear and psychological operation being run. The Puzzle Palace on 35th is rife with “all the smart guys and girls” becoming mask Nazis. Do they realize how foolish and uninformed they really are? Please Big Government Masters, just save us from a cold/flu virus that has 99.97% survival rates!

Majority of you are fucking lemmings and deserve every bit of suffering and hardship that is coming to you and your children at the hands of the socialists and communists.

11/30/2020 10:26:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Setting the national tone. This is going to be a long, long several years.

Kamala Harris is slammed for pleading for people to help small businesses just months after she asked for donations to bail out jailed rioters who 'burned and looted' stores

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9000027/Kamala-Harris-slammed-pleading-help-small-businesses-months-wanted-help-rioters.html

11/30/2020 10:55:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

It will all be ok the day Biden is confirmed. The vaccine theat President Trump worked so hard to make happen miraculously was announced AFTER the election just to make sure it didnt make him look good. Now watch how the vaccines will be approved and delivered once dementia Joe and the hoe are sworn in. Then the rest of the country will have to pay for the corrupt blue states that are under water. Sickening how this all played out.

11/30/2020 10:56:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Golf Tango Foxtrot Oscar

Will the last productive taxpayer leaving Illinois please take the flag.

11/30/2020 11:16:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Illinois - the same old song of financial woe for over 50 years, some say 20 years, starting with Geo Ryan (the pharmacist from Kankakee). They ass blasted Pat Quinn for his “borrow to balance” budget plans. JB is being praised for this, as is Imbecile Larri, who had every opportunity to chide as she’s know to do, from the Democrats draconian political overreach (not limited to lockdowns) but apparently was promised something for her dopey, no thought, non opinionated, follow along. She’s that inept and stupid.

The Larri Sanctuary City seeded this SBF program with your rising tax dollars and Covid’s 19 bailout bullion. Zip code and race specific economic zones, free from scientific health guidelines and metrics. Whereas the desolate, forbidden Boul Mich merchants had to spring for they’own plywood and subject to exorbitant insurance premiums and leases for empty stores.

No need for a mom & pop corner stores at the end of the block, Gold Coast storefront boutiques, shopping malls, churches or even town square meetup spots when these Dems can call for mandatory lockdowns and utilities shut offs at will. Their plan intends to ration all out of doors activity altogether.

Not to worry,
Amazon has a master plan for The New World Order.
Everything can be ordered online and delivered. From a box of pork chops, toiletries and even eLernin’ StayAtHome skool lesson plans. As a sole no-bid vendor, they’ll even ship y’all necessary City of Chicago travel documents.

You want it - Amazon Prime Got It. Only $119 per year - get some.

11/30/2020 11:41:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

OT - This is how they will have to dispose of Porky Pigster after he kicks the bucket: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V6CLumsir34

11/30/2020 12:56:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Fat Ass & Groot don’t give a shit about who they hurt, unless it’s their family or cronies.

If they cared about “death & disease” why did they legalize weed? Why don’t they ban tobacco or vaping? You know why, because they are hooked on the taxes.

How the hell do they think the economy will ever recover? They will never cut spending. Anyone could go thru the state’s budget with a axe and balance it easily but Fat Ass won’t. His idea of “drastic painful cuts” is no increase.

Hope & pray GA elects 2 GOP senators to block some of the bullshit agenda from senile Joe and the hoe. Ironic that we have to depend on a southern state to save us.

I see where BLM is already turning against the new administration. More violence? Let’s see how Joe fixes that.

11/30/2020 01:14:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

"Let’s try communism now! That will help. Just ask Venezuela 🇻🇪"
Seems to be doing real good for those in power there. No shortages of anything if you have the connections.
But on the lighter side, the Death Industry in Chicago is having a banner season. Fifty or sixty million dollars for funerals of just the murdered. And the COC multiplier of 3, $150 to $180. And you know in the hood, you going to go first class.

11/30/2020 02:38:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Governor FAT ASS now says we will not be abiding by declining COVIDIOT Numbers and will continue with Tier 3 Mitigations into next year because he spoke to Dr Douche FAUCI and SEnile Dr Murphy who told fat ass that "SURGE UPON SURGE" will be coming in the next 3 weeks.Just when you think you have their game down,Fat Ass changes the rules.

11/30/2020 04:19:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Well Gov. Fat Ass is back in town after Thanksgiving berating McHenry county Pol's. for not closing their business that stayed open in violation of the Woo Han Red Death edict. But the Fat Incompetent POS can't solve his own IDES issues or anything else for that matter. So instead of telling voters to remove McHenry Officials. He needs to fire his own sorry Fat Ass.

11/30/2020 06:22:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

to 11/30/202 0825am

hey reired guy not to spill the beans what town is it ?

is it genoa ,ill?

11/30/2020 06:45:00 PM  
Blogger Unknown said...

“The feds could bail out the state, pay all the bills, fund the pensions, and in less then 2 years it would be in the same shape it's in now!!”

If someone can cash in for another 2 years and then abscond, why should that person care about what happens in the state after 2 years?

And maybe (probably, I’d say) there will be more rounds of federal bailouts.

The end result will be national economic meltdown and/or hyperinflation. The smart money will go to other countries before that happens.

11/30/2020 07:44:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

"I see where BLM is already turning against the new administration. More violence? Let’s see how Joe fixes that."


BLM doesn't support democrats, they want to replace democrats.

11/30/2020 07:48:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Don't worry you can always be a truck driver!

11/30/2020 07:56:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Anonymous said...
Fat Ass & Groot don’t give a shit about who they hurt, unless it’s their family or cronies.

If they cared about “death & disease” why did they legalize weed? Why don’t they ban tobacco or vaping? You know why, because they are hooked on the taxes.

How the hell do they think the economy will ever recover? They will never cut spending. Anyone could go thru the state’s budget with a axe and balance it easily but Fat Ass won’t. His idea of “drastic painful cuts” is no increase.

Hope & pray GA elects 2 GOP senators to block some of the bullshit agenda from senile Joe and the hoe. Ironic that we have to depend on a southern state to save us.

I see where BLM is already turning against the new administration. More violence? Let’s see how Joe fixes that.

11/30/2020 01:14:00 PM

I'm done voting what's the point? These feckless spineless Republicans do nothing while they steal the presidency from Trump can't vote for these Republican cowards.

11/30/2020 08:01:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Our Billionaire Governor will donate his own money to bring our state and city back from the dead...

11/30/2020 08:49:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

"I see where BLM is already turning against the new administration. More violence? Let’s see how Joe fixes that."


BLM doesn't support democrats, they want to replace democrats.

Yeah With Communists...It's A Marxist Organization!!!

11/30/2020 09:39:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Plus the thousands of us who won't do any commerce within Chicago/Cook county. With the exception of groceries I cant remember the last time I bought anything within those limits. It's just capitalism, when it's less expensive elsewhere, I will choose to patronize elsewhere. Gas, sins, and big ticket items are only 20 minutes away.

11/30/2020 11:31:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Fat ass walked out today and delivered his corona musings. He has definitely gained more weight!
Wisconsin is assisting him to the next level.....at the all you can eat spread!

12/01/2020 01:23:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

The U-Haul State of Illinois salesman of the year 2020 for the most income generated from one-way, out-of-state moves is Fatass Pritzker.

F.U.F.A. F.U.L.L. MAGA 2024!

12/01/2020 03:37:00 AM  

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