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Illinois Has No Budget, So Where Do State Tax Dollars Go, Anyway?
Category: Arts
Duration: 00:26:44
Publish Date: 2016-04-11 11:00:00
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.
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