The details of Illinois’ budget raising social media, crypto and fantasy sports taxes and pausing gas tax hike – Chicago Tribune/Yahoo

The plan doesn't raise the state's sales or income tax rates. But it does rely on a series of new taxes and tweaks to be balanced, while also reviving some temporary election-year tax breaks Democrats last deployed in 2022, when Gov. JB Pritzker was seeking a second term.

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Leaving Soon, just not soon enough

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The state keeps finding more and more things to tax. They will never give up on higher and higher taxes. Pension funding has to come from somewhere.

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