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Chicago is putting itself in the running for Amazon’s new second headquarters. Unfortunately, Chicago is in Illinois, the state that just raised its income tax by a whopping 32 percent. That is on top of numerous tax and fee increases by Chicago and Cook County. With elected officials not satiated, there is talk of many, many, many more tax hikes.

It’s hard to imagine why Amazon would even come to Chicago except to change planes.