None of this changes the sad reality: Illinois & other Blue State are rapidly losing their most productive citizens
By Stephen Moore
WASHINGTON, D.C. (Texas Insider Report) — We’ve cast serious doubts on the accuracy of the 2020 Census Count – particularly in many Blue States. The population numbers far exceed the annual Census population estimates, as well as data on things like home sales, moving van destinations, IRS tax returns, and other measures of movements between the states.
Illinois should have probably lost another Congressional Seat after the 2020 Census – as should have New York. But just as the left used the 2020 COVID-19 Pandemic to change who knows how many long-established voting rules in key states across the country, they used the virus to change the way the Census was conducted.
And now there's good reason to suspect that the counting errors cost Red States like Florida, Texas, and Arizona as many as 3-to-4 Congressional Seats.
So our jaws dropped open when we read this headline from the Chicago Tribune entitled: Illinois finds 46,400 people missed by the 2020 Census, potentially offsetting last year’s reported population decline
State officials claimed there were far more people than originally counted who live in shelters, government-assisted housing, prisons, or are homeless. Yeah, right.
So our jaws dropped open when we read this headline from the Chicago Tribune entitled: Illinois finds 46,400 people missed by the 2020 Census, potentially offsetting last year’s reported population decline
State officials claimed there were far more people than originally counted who live in shelters, government-assisted housing, prisons, or are homeless. Yeah, right.
You wouldn’t think a state would want to boast about these high numbers of indigents and criminals – but Illinois Governor J.B. Pritzker is celebrating that this recount will bring tens of millions more in Federal Welfare dollars to his state.
None of this changes the sad reality of Illinois: the state is rapidly losing its most productive citizens – no matter what Census bean counters say.
Stephen Moore serves as Chief Economist for The Texas Insider, and is a Senior Fellow at both FreedomWorks and the Heritage Foundation. Along with Steve Forbes & Larry Kudlow, he is the Co-Founder of the Committee to Unleash Prosperity, and is a frequent guest and contributor to both Fox News and the Washington Examiner.
