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Back to EpisodesIllinois Has No Budget, So Where Do State Tax Dollars Go, Anyway?
Published 10 years, 2 months ago
Description
The answers are crazy. We’ll have fun looking. But you’ll probably be pretty mad by the end. Things are worse than you thought.
The bad news: We’re paying out billions more than we take in. Just without setting priorities.
The state comptroller — who makes the payments — calls it “ad hoc” and “ridiculous.”
The worse news: We’re still letting billions of dollars in services go totally unfunded.
And: We’re breaking the non-profits that provide those services.
Full story, complete with charts.