Since 2020, the state has gotten $15.6 billion in federal aid related to the COVID-19 pandemic. While that funding was temporary, Illinois has permanently increased what it spends. That has caused a fiscal problem for the state, with projected budget deficits totaling nearly $21 billion during the next five years. Expenditures are forecasted to grow nearly 20 percent in that time, but revenues only 11 percent in that time.
considering the huge increase in deficit under the trump reigim, how can people here ever claim that excess spending of government funds is a democrat only issue?
Mr Google
1 month ago
Who is the brainless Bozo who is giving thumbs down? Suppose I say it’s JB himself!
daskoterzar
1 month ago
The fact that Jumbo and the State Legislature promoted and voted this into law as well as all of the other government agencies who took one-time money and built it into their annual budget should illustrate to voters just how stupid the current democratic royalty really are. More concerning is that it may not be just stupid, it was likely purposeful…an easy way to get their graft and their money laundering prOgrams in place. After all…it is Illinois. Corruption is normal.
Deb
1 month ago
Cutting spending is something IL Democrats and Pritzker have never considered. They just raise taxes and create new taxes.
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.
considering the huge increase in deficit under the trump reigim, how can people here ever claim that excess spending of government funds is a democrat only issue?
Who is the brainless Bozo who is giving thumbs down? Suppose I say it’s JB himself!
The fact that Jumbo and the State Legislature promoted and voted this into law as well as all of the other government agencies who took one-time money and built it into their annual budget should illustrate to voters just how stupid the current democratic royalty really are. More concerning is that it may not be just stupid, it was likely purposeful…an easy way to get their graft and their money laundering prOgrams in place. After all…it is Illinois. Corruption is normal.
Cutting spending is something IL Democrats and Pritzker have never considered. They just raise taxes and create new taxes.
And….. the voters keep rewarding these same leaders by electing them each and every election. The voters approve.
Illinois is as lax as other states in addressing Medicaid fraud. this must come first