To He#$ with Illinois. I was traveling through to duck hunt in Arkansas, and stopped to eat. Idiots had restaurant lick down. Meaning travelers didn’t have a place to eat.

I made it to MO, and finally found some sanity. On my return trip, I made sure I ate and filled the tank in MO so I didn’t spend a dime e in that forsaken State.

If you live there and pay those absurd property taxes, you deserve your misery. Only dumber place to live is California.

My income tax in Il. was $0 because they don't tax retirement income or SS. Indiana does tax retirement but not SS. So instead of paying $0 if I lived in Indiana my state taxes would have been $5,750. Hell that's almost twice what I pay in property taxes. So for me I'd be a lot dumber living in Indiana than Il. Plus there isn't any toll roads downstate.

And some of us are stuck here, most of us, at least those of us not on sucking on some manner of government teat, are plotting to escape somehow someday!
It wasn’t always this bad. When I bought my house a few years after graduating college in the 80s, property taxes were less than 25% of what they are today on the same, never added onto house, state income tax was half what it is now, vehicle license plates were less than 1/3rd now, and sales tax rate was around half what it is now.
“Those were the days”.