Tornado Alley (PROG)

[blackhawks]

No. first of all you have no idea if the author had a preconceived thesis. As I see it the methodology flattens discrepancies between counties

Secondly, the fundamental conclusion, which you clearly don't like because of your preconceived notions, would change not a whit regardless of methodology.

Why?

Key phrases: lower income and how much each county receives.

You're getting back more than you kicked in. Period.

“The lower income regions of Illinois as a whole are receiving significantly more in state expenditures than they contribute in taxes,” the study wrote. “Indeed in the most southern region, there would be very little economic activity at all without the state.”

Read more here: https://www.bnd.com/news/local/article217665185.html#storylink=cpy

Disbursement of state money

How much general fund money is sent by each county to Springfield, and how much each county receives.


County Ratio per $1 Revenue to the state Disbursements to the county


Cook $0.80 $11,925,148,518 $9,515,776,084
Dupage $0.31 $2,738,909,746 $850,866,241
Kane $0.76 $1,082,636,293 $820,072,628
Lake $0.39 $2,151,565,097 $848,508,822
McHenry $0.42 $648,667,262 $272,598,913
Will $0.68 $1,402,726,419 $946,909,089
Bond $1.85 $23,713,245 $43,918,319
Clinton $2.42 $64,894,472 $157,161,499
Madison $1.10 $489,544,441 $538,829,494
Monroe $0.49 $66,117,098 $32,509,825
Randolph $3.08 $58,749,712 $180,921,286
St. Clair $1.13 $465,735,103 $525,228,978
Washington $1.18 $26,799,930 $31,715,131