The budget increases property taxes by $76.5 million, which analysis shows will cost a Chicago homeowner between $180 and $72 per year on average, depending on where they live. The same budget sets aside roughly $32 million from temporary federal COVID-19 relief grants to fund a test of universal basic income, giving $500 a month to 5,000 low-income families for a year.
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.
Are you enjoying the communist government that is ruling you yet suckers?
Would be interested to see the demographics of the giveaway when finally doled out.