By Noah Shaar, from August 2021, includes “Illinois was No. 10 just a few years ago, but diligent efforts by politicians mean Illinois is now No. 2 – for the taxes paid on a gallon of gas. … You see a lot of Illinois license plates at gas stations just across the state line in both Missouri and Indiana, said Robert Forsyth, president of Moto Inc. … ‘It’s politically expedient to say you care, but when you pass regressive taxes like this it shows you do not really care about the rest of the state or your poor,’ Forsyth said.”