Thread: Big brother

While I wholeheartedly agree that Illinois has some issues, most working class people stay here for the high wages and benefits. I too had explored the idea of moving to ''red" state but grandchildren, family, and friends delayed that. I pay $0 state income tax on my pension. Fuel and property tax are a completely different story. There is some good crappie fishing in Illinois south of I80. I made the majority of my nest egg here so I will stay and fish here. That is my 2 cents worth.

Let's keep the site about crappie fishing and not politics!

Come on down, just donâ€t bring any Illinois politicians with you.
You mean the ones not in prison

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Forgive us for talking about real life stuff. Sorry that we became rebels.

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Bubbabeck - for now, your not paying taxes on your pension. That could very well change, come November 3rd. At the moment, there will be a question on the ballot, about changing the state Constitution, which will allow pensions / retirements too be taxed.

Big guy will probably nuke this thread shortly... surprised it's lasted this long... everyone has been civil..good discussion.

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Bubbabeck - for now, your not paying taxes on your pension. That could very well change, come November 3rd. At the moment, there will be a question on the ballot, about changing the state Constitution, which will allow pensions / retirements too be taxed.

Yep

Outside of borrowing, there is not much left they can tax or add a fee to.
Interesting that they just asked for Billions for pension relief and unemployment relief from the Feds.

Guess which category had a larger $ request.LOL

It was my hope in starting this thread that our Governor Whom I have messaged Will decide to treat central and southern Illinois in a different manner than Chicago who has most of the disease. I think sportsman are smart enough and we are free men after all to be careful when we’re in the outdoors and some of my friends Are becoming depressed See you on the water soon hopefully God bless you all


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It was my hope in starting this thread that our Governor Whom I have messaged Will decide to treat central and southern Illinois in a different manner than Chicago who has most of the disease. I think sportsman are smart enough and we are free men after all to be careful when we’re in the outdoors and some of my friends Are becoming depressed See you on the water soon hopefully God bless you all

GSC

I agree with your thinking and would probably be on the short end of the stick on a partial release.

This was a recent topic of discussion for some of us upstate guys.

The thought was to restrict certain counties around Chicago with high numbers while releasing those counties with few to no cases.

Being in a county that probably would be under a travel restriction, it was hard to press for the case to release those who could enjoy the outdoors while I would have to sit it out and watch.

Sounds noble and all and I really, really want to go fishing but I can see the logic in a partial release.

The last thing we need is to release a large carrier population into small towns with few resources.

That said, the perceived discrimination for certain area restrictions for containment purposes would hit the fan big time from a political view and I don't think they want to deal with the fallout.


Hopefully we will all be fishing soon.

Good Luck