· In an early 2019 interview with CNBC, Buffett explained why many employers steer clear of states where, as in Illinois, politicians have doomed taxpayers: “If I were relocating into some state that had a huge unfunded pension plan, I’m walking into liabilities. Who knows whether they’re going to get it from the corporate income tax or my employees — you know, with personal income taxes. ... And when you see what they would have to do, I say to myself, ‘Why do I want to build a plant there that has to sit there for 30 or 40 years? ’Cause I’ll be here for the life of the pension plan, and they will come after corporations, they’ll come after individuals. They — just — they’re gonna have to raise a lot of money.”