Oldie but a goodie. We need tolls just to build these roads. Then we’re done. Their political slogan was “toll free in 73” That was over 50 years ago
https://www.illinoispolicy.org/growth-in-tollway-revenue-shows-illinois-never-planned-on-keeping-its-freeway-promise/
the gov is wasteful in ways I don’t think we will ever understand. Even with doge. They move the tax goalpost ever so slightly year over year to make this years feel minimal…. But the reality is they are going to keep going until they tax the country into oblivion. It won’t occur over a year. It won’t occur during one specific administration but there is no end to their nonsense.
Illinois is #2 in gas tax behind good old Cali just and just raised the tax again. I think we’re top ish in property and combined state taxes too …. No end in sight as we are STILL paying hundreds of millions for bidens illegal alien scheme and they are asking to raise property taxes in Chicago / cook county specifically for that…. AGAIN.
don’t sit here and tell me it’s for “schools” either. Chicago public schools are shyte. Yes we need schools but this joke of a public school system is not the utopia anyone thinks it is.
https://www.illinoispolicy.org/report-illinoisans-pay-nations-highest-combined-state-local-taxes/#:~:text=Illinoisans average %2413.1K in taxes%2C highest burden in U.S.&text=A move to Iowa%2C the,%2479%2C004 U.S. median household income.