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Move. Seriously. Don't even try to change it. You read about ghost towns in the upper midwest that can't keep people and are going back to wild prairie.
No jobs, no reason to stay. Move. People left their farms during the Dust Bowl.
Outsourcing jobs overseas, NAFTA, Chinese most favored trade status, illegal immigration, this is the result.
1. No buisness will go there due to crime, poor work force, and high buisness legal exposure in Illinois
2. the population is uneducated and has a poor work ethic, therefore they are not able to create buisness nor attract buisness
3. the culture of crime and lack of education is ingrained in the population
What could be done?
1. Create a "tax free zone" for buisnesses or corporation who would be exempt from property tax and breaks on federal corporate tax. Essentially make a buisness "tax free".
2. Allow free land for buisnesses willing to locate in the area
3. establish a curfew
4. Allow the DEA to actually convict drug dealers there. A DEA agent was in our office a few years ago and said that they do not even bother making arrests in that area (unless the dollar amount is several million dollars) as the judges are on the take. Enforcement is impossible there and it is essentially lawless. Does that remind anyone of an administration transplanted from Chicago?
5. Create a "class action free zone" in which class action corporate suits cannot be filed against businesses in this zone. This part of Illinois has been rife with class action suits, which has killed buisness (The torts of Madison County).
6. Close the public schools and contract with the parochial school system to take over education
7. Limit work comp settlements in this zone, allowing buisness to avoid the work comp environment of Illinois
Actually East St Louis is in a LOT better shape than it used to be. You can thank the hated liberals for that, as for so many other wonderful turns of events.
Actually East St Louis is in a LOT better shape than it used to be. You can thank the hated liberals for that, as for so many other wonderful turns of events.
1. Create a "tax free zone" for buisnesses or corporation who would be exempt from property tax and breaks on federal corporate tax. Essentially make a buisness "tax free".
2. Allow free land for buisnesses willing to locate in the area
3. establish a curfew
4. Allow the DEA to actually convict drug dealers there. A DEA agent was in our office a few years ago and said that they do not even bother making arrests in that area (unless the dollar amount is several million dollars) as the judges are on the take. Enforcement is impossible there and it is essentially lawless. Does that remind anyone of an administration transplanted from Chicago?
5. Create a "class action free zone" in which class action corporate suits cannot be filed against businesses in this zone. This part of Illinois has been rife with class action suits, which has killed buisness (The torts of Madison County).
6. Close the public schools and contract with the parochial school system to take over education
7. Limit work comp settlements in this zone, allowing buisness to avoid the work comp environment of Illinois
Where has this been done or something close to it and what were the results?
This is actually a great opportunity to show the difference btw right and left (or as I call it bad and good ). Do you honestly think "conservatives" would clean up a place like ESL?
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). Do you honestly think "conservatives" would clean up a place like ESL?
