After toll hikes, it’s time to move

Thank you, Gov. Quinn for making my life unbearable living in Illinois.

With all your taxes and cuts in programs and giving every company who threatens to leave the state tax breaks to stay here while putting the burden on the backs of us so-called little people with higher taxes, I am looking to move out of the state and go someplace where they don’t bleed the money on the backs of their taxpayers.

The latest slap in the face — higher tolls to pay for projects — was the straw that broke the camel’s back. You can soft soap it all you want by saying we pay the lowest tolls in the country per mile than other states but at the same time, we are paying the highest taxes on gasoline than any other state.

Someone once said that tollways were supposed to pay for themselves and once paid for, the tolls would stop being collected. Just like the state’s lottery was promised to pay for the schools. It is so easy to try to push your projects by saying that they will create more jobs for the unemployed to gain support but anyone with an ounce of brains should be able to see through that, so my only alternative is to move out of the state.

I am sure you wont give me any incentives to stay.

Merrill Urbane Jr.

Lake Zurich