Appellate arguments: Cook County wants transportation funding rules reduced to ‘mere suggestion’ – Cook County Record

The road builders accused Cook County’s attorneys of attempting to “rewrite” the transportation funding amendment, “so that its restrictions and prohibitions are reduced to a mere suggestion that people should follow statutes.”
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NB-Chicago
4 years ago

Big picture, what stops funds given out to counties from states/jbs $45 billion infrastructure taxes/bond sales to be used fot purposes other the infrastructure (ie pay pension debt)?

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