Total taxpayer spending for Illinois’ budget jumps 95% since 2018 – Center Square

Truth in Accounting’s Sheila Weinberg said there was a 7% increase from 2018 to 2019. “Then COVID happened and then the floodgates just opened. The federal government threw money at everything. The states threw money at everything,” Weinberg said. “So between 2019 and 2020, the annual appropriations increased by a whopping 35%.”