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“J.B. Pritzker has destroyed safety and security in the city,”
Miller told The Center Square. “The second thing that I think
would be causing people stress is as a parent they're turning
the education system into not much more than an indoctrination
center for the Radical Left. Then, there’s just the influx of
illegal immigrants that are getting the gold card given to them
when everybody else is having to pay for the illegal aliens that
invaded the city. All those things combined, I can see why
people are stressed out there.”
Overall, researchers compared data across 39 different metrics,
including average weekly work hours to unemployment rate to
divorce and suicide rates, with each of them being graded on a
100-point scale.
“I mean every cost and every quality of life issue has gotten
worse under the Biden/Pritzker regime,” Miller added. “The cost
of food, the cost of electricity, the cost of gas is doubled.
These things are driving businesses out of the city, driving
families out of the city and making it almost impossible for
them to exist.”
Miller adds he sees just one way forward if the city is to have
its best chance of turning things around.
“They need to reduce the tax rate; they need to reduce real
estate taxes,” he said. “They need to improve their dealing with
the crime problem. They need the schools to be fixed. They’re a
lot of things that can be done to help make the city of Chicago
better.”
Back in 2019, Miller cosponsored legislation to make Chicago its
own state, arguing many of the city’s policies fall far short of
aligning with the views of his downstate constituents.
“One of the biggest issues is that we have no representation,”
he said. “I think one of the biggest things that trickle down is
a disastrous tax base, a disastrous economy, with the tax and
spend policies. They have the net effect of what all the hard-
working, middle-class families have to pay has doubled and
tripled, and at the same time the salaries haven't been keeping
up with the inflation we've seen in the marketplace.”
In the WalletHub survey, Cleveland, Ohio ranked as the most
stressed state, with New York ranking No. 36 and Los Angeles at
No. 42.
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