A quarter of every tax dollar generated from recreational cannabis will go to the newly created Restore, Reinvest and Renew program. When she was a state senator, Toi Hutchinson explained what that’ll be spent on.
“That money is specifically going to small community agencies in the areas that have been impacted the most, that do the work on the ground,” Hutchinson said in 2019.
A quarter of every dollar of tax from legal weed will slosh around, going mostly to politically-connected “non-government” (laughs sardonically) organizations run by friends, family and campaign contributors of (mostly democratic) politicians.
A largely unasked question is becoming glaring: Is Illinois doing all it should to use artificial intelligence to make government cost less and work better? So far, the evidence says no.
A quarter of every dollar of tax from legal weed will slosh around, going mostly to politically-connected “non-government” (laughs sardonically) organizations run by friends, family and campaign contributors of (mostly democratic) politicians.
It’s a slush fund.
Weed TIF.