Unions don’t create jobs and revenue
When will Illinois voters finally get it? Governor Quinn gives Motorola $100 million in tax credits to remain here. Now he must extend tax incentives to prevent Sears and its 4,000 jobs and $130 million in revenue from moving to New Jersey, Texas, Tennessee or North Carolina.
In Chicago, a huge new sound stage is being built to attract profitable film productions. How? With tax incentives similar to those available in Toronto, where they’ve been poaching Hollywood and Illinois movie productions for years. Amazon has cut ties with their Illinois affiliates when our brilliant Democratic leaders decided to force Amazon to collect state sales taxes.
Countless businesses and jobs have left the state. Caterpillar just picked Muncie, Ind. for a manufacturing plant, and threatens to leave the state entirely. As George Will points out, “a January corporate tax hike of almost 50 percent and a 67 percent personal income tax increase makes Illinois one of the most expensive places in the world to conduct business.”
When will Illinois voters understand that we must compete with other states for businesses and the jobs they provide? When will they finally realize that unions don’t create jobs and revenue, businesses do. So Governor Quinn says he knows how to work with big businesses? If he did, this letter wouldn’t have been written.
Doug MacGregor
Naperville