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 Guess which city lost the "Most People This Year" Winner is Chicago (13)

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Guess which city lost the "Most People This Year" Winner is Chicago

One American city is having a multi-pronged crisis. According to the Chicago Tribune out of the country's ten largest cities the Chicago metropolitan statistical area was the only one to drop in population between 2015 and 2016. In 2016, a staggering 19,570 people left the Chicago area almost double the number that left in 2015 which was the first year since 1990 that the city and surrounding metropolitan area didn't gain residents. There are three factors that are critical in determining why Americans are fleeing Chicago and not hard to figure out what they are.

1. Taxes - Illinois has the highest "effective total state and local tax rates on median U.S. households" at 14.76%, or approximately $8,011 annually. 

2. Unemployment - Of the 51 largest metropolitan areas, Chicago ranks 47th.

3. Crime - The murder rate in Chicago is astronomical. From 2014 - 2015, murders in Chicago rose by approximately 17%, jumping from 423 to 496, according to CNN. However, the leap from 2015 - 2016 is truly shocking. In 2016, there were 762 murders in Chicago, a year-to-year increase of 53.6%.

In closing it is plain to see Americans are fleeing Chicago because it's a dying city and its status as a dying city is due solely to Progressive Social Justice and Utopian policies and the above facts show that a Progressive Utopia can never exist.

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5 points

The progressives are the architects of 'white flight' from Chicago just as they were with Detroit.

The problem is that even when their policies have us all crawling around in the gutter they'll continue on with their 'death wish' whilst a brain washed and conditioned electorate will permit themselves and the nation to be sleepwalked into oblivion.

There is some good news, President Trump has at least started to address the problem and is looking like a man capable of turning America's fortunes around.

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The Far Left Progressives in Chicago will not be able to figure out why it is happening.They will believe that it cannot be their idealism and policies.Progressives sure love to boast how Democratic Socialism works for the Scandinavian countries but then go on to make a huge false equivalency by saying the policies that work in those countries will also work in America. That's the highest form of intellectual dishonesty. All you need to do is point to Illinois to have the Progressive argument fall completely apart.

2 points

You didn't give us a chance to guess. You put the answer in the title.

2 points

What is even more pathetic is their solution. The moonbats have proposed massive new tax increases to recoup the money they are losing by people leaving. I swear, liberalism is a mental disorder.

Chicago on steroids is what the entire United States will look like if Liberalism gets its way.

1 point

Why should we read what someone who quotes CNN has to say? Go home fake news leftist.

outlaw60(15368) Disputed
1 point

High taxes , High unemployment and High crime that's your Progressive Nirvana is it not.

outlaw60(15368) Disputed
0 points

The facts are to much for you as you deflect and the Typical Progressive deflection is again on display.

Cartman(18192) Disputed
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Correction: too.

1 point

I never have cared for Chicago. In fact I'll go as far as to say large Midwest cities pretty much all suck. You can try to stick that on liberals, or, you can simply realize people have lots of great reasons to move away from the Midwest.

outlaw60(15368) Clarified
2 points

Chicago is run by Progressives no reason to stick it on them they own the disaster that city is.

1 point

The city is overpriced and full of niggers. What does anyone expect?

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Hello:

If progressive liberal policies are an anathema to success, how do you explain the left coast?? Look.. Chicago has some problems.. Maybe it's the right wing cops who aren't doing their jobs.. What?

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