Wisconsin is becoming a new relocation target for Illinois residents. - @Kenosha_News #OpenforBusiness #WIRighthttps://t.co/0T5mPO6ivm
— Speaker Robin Vos (@SpeakerVos) January 7, 2020
If we're talking Illinois, Vos's statement is true - using the Census Bureau's state-to-state migration figures, Wisconsin has received a sizable amount of people from Illinois moving north in recent years, and nowhere near as many Cheeseheads have moved south to Illinois in that time.
In fact, the ratio of comers-to-goers is nearly 2 to 1 with Wisconsin vs Illinois, and is a marked contrast to Wisconsin's relationship with its 2nd largest state for migration - Minnesota, which has been generally been an even trade over the same time period.
But what Vos doesn't mention is that Wisconsin is losing people to the rest of the country. Not as much as the 27,000+ we lost in 2015 or 26,500 we lost in 2016, but it's still a sizable amount, and a big reason why Wisconsin's population has stagnated.
By comparison, Minnesota has been gaining people from the rest of the country in the same time period - between 9,000 and 18,000 each year. Their weather is even worse than ours, so what are they doing that we aren't?
Basically, Robbin' Vos is doing the equivalent of a Packer fan talking smack on a 4-12 Bears team when the Pack are 7-9. Sure, we're not as dreadful as the FIBs when it comes to migration, but it's also far behind where you want to be. Let's demand more, shall we?
Mission Accomplished!
ReplyDeleteIllinois has so many more people than we do, thousands moving north doesn't affect their economy or workforce numbers. Wisconsin is what? Half the size of the Chicagoland area? And don't most of those people actually work in Chicago so all the jobs are staying there? A small number of working age people leaving WI has a bigger impact, proportionally. Vos is such an idiot.
ReplyDeleteLots of truth there. Wisconsin should get a benefit of migration from both Chicago and the Twin Cities because of commuting and larger size vs the Wisconsin communities nearby.
ReplyDeleteAnd as you note, Wisconsin pays Illinois tens of millions of dollars a year because of so many Wis residents having (higher-paying) jobs in FIBland, via tax reciprocity.
Here's more fuel: who, exactly, is moving from Illinois to Wisconsin? What age groups? And what other demographic identifiers, if any, have been documented?
ReplyDeleteIs the largest group actually retirees, looking for a slower pace of life, less traffic congestion and lower-population-density surroundings? Is Vos actually pointing to people making one last large investment, a home or a condo, and otherwise consuming expendables and stimulating any local economy at a rather modest rate? And where in the state are they moving to? Into the border counties, to make it easy to maintain ties with relatives and friends in Illinois?
Given that more Wisconsinites are leaving the Badger State to live in Illinois, all the supposed marketing efforts by these organizations cited in the article amount to reducing a migration hemorrhage. But Vos, congenital lying weasel that he is, couldn't tell the truth if his weasel-life depended on it.
I've always thought Illinois could aim an advertising campaign at Wisconsin Democrats, to persuade them to move across the border. It's really an ideal environment... Government dominated almost entirely by Democrats, huge amounts of unfunded pension debt, rising taxes... I do hear the roads are better, so there's that. Plus, fewer Democrats in Wisconsin is always a win!
ReplyDeleteOK, You win. I think we'll all move to Illinois and take our WRS pensions with us.
DeleteHey, we triggered the troll again! Yippee!!! Always a laugh riot to spur the troll into spewing! Poor little squeaker can't cite facts and data! Just too lazy! Just overheats his itty-bitty brain! Teehee!!!
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