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- From: jeq@i88.isc.com (Jonathan E. Quist)
- Newsgroups: chi.general
- Subject: Re: Casion--Vote
- Message-ID: <1993Jan21.163705.14673@i88.isc.com>
- Date: 21 Jan 93 16:37:05 GMT
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- In article <9301209336@drktowr.chi.il.us> magus@drktowr.chi.il.us (Louis Giliberto) writes:
- >Gene Rackow (rackow@skeeve.mcs.anl.gov) wrote:
- >: Agreed, IF it wasn't for the fact that every time the people of the 312
- >: area codes do something, they expect/demand funding from the people of the
- >: 708, 815, and other areacodes of IL to bail them out. The day that our
- >: communities no longer subsidize the chicago machine will be the day we
- >: can say let 312 decide. Chicago gets alot more money from the state
- >: compared to what they pay in compared to any{maybe almost any} other IL city.
- >
- >And Chicago pays more to the state than any other IL city. It also provides
- >the plowing, repairs, etc. that keep the airports you like to fly in and
- >out of open,
-
- Do you really believe that Chicago would have annexed O'Hare if they didn't
- expect to turn a profit?
-
- >the water supply that many suburbs drink from, not to mention
-
- The city is shipping this water to the suburbs free, out of the goodness
- of its heart?
-
- >Hey, I'm all for seperatism. Let Chicago not pay anything to the state
- >in the form of taxes and the like, and we won't ask for any money from
- >the state. Then let the suburbs get their own airports, TV stations,
- >business centers, etc.
-
- Thank you. We already have them.
-
- >The reason Chicago gets more money is two-fold: 1) it generates more money,
-
- That makes sense. Chicago generates more money, therefore it needs more
- money....
-
- >and 2) it has more services to support many of which non-Chicagoans take
- >advantage of. Next time a suburban company has a business client fly in,
- >have him fly into Aurora or Milwaukee and commute from there and see how
- >long he stays a client.
-
- Considering that it's largely business that keep Aurora, DuPage, Pal-Waukee,
- and Waukegan airports open and viable, I'd say they like it.
-
- >Drink some water pumped out of your ground instead
- >of water cleaned by Chicago's water department (which doesn't have a lead
- >problem like most of the suburbs I might add).
-
- I do, and we don't. Last I heard, the Chicago building code still requires
- lead supply pipes into buildings. Or has that changed in the last 10 years?
-
- >But I get it now. You want a suburb of 40,000 to get as much money
- >as a city of a couple of million. Seems fair to me.
-
- No, I want a city of a couple of million to be willing to invest as
- great a percentage in itself as my town of 19,000.
-
- --
- Jonathan E. Quist Lachman Technology, Incorporated
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