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Illinois Insanity: State Spend $365K Taxpayer Dollars to Teach People How to Fish
Illinois has a budget deficit of $8 billion and has billions of dollars in unpaid bills. Those problems persist after the largest tax hikes in history.
However, Illinois is wasting millions of dollars in programs that many would consider absurd even in good times. For example, please consider $365K In Taxpayer Dollars To Teach People How To Fish?
In his winter budget address, Gov. Pat Quinn pledged that “all unnecessary state spending will be eliminated.” Now it appears the state is preparing once again, to spend a third of a million dollars – taxpayer dollars – to teach people how to fish.
“I don’t think teaching people how to fish in urban areas or rural areas is a core government service,” says CEO John Tillman. And he complains that in this year’s budget, “they’ve increased it from $351,000 to $365,000.”
