What if at the same time @GovPritzker was spending millions telling Illinois he balanced the budget his office was putting out projections showing deficits and that the bill backlog will rise back to $8 B by FY2025? @illinoispolicy #twill

Washington has been much more successful than California in shifting cannabis consumers from illegal dealers to licensed retailers.

1) No denying it was a good night for Dems given the context. That even GOP control of House is still merely likely, not definite, proves that. 2) A big loser is Trump: his candidates mostly lost (Vance, maybe Masters, the exception), sat on $100m, and DeSantis' win was huge.

Illinois already had the highest tax burden in the Midwest and among the highest in the nation when @GovPritzker took office. Since then, taxes have grown more in IL than any state except CT. Pritzker has signed 24 different tax and fee hikes worth $5.2 B. https://t.co/I45HlTPCgM

Declining to address increases in the cost of government does not stop the bills from coming due.

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This is fake – I did *not* tweet out a link to The New York Times!

New IRS report indicates that "tax gap" is stable as a share of GDP, which is contrary to political rhetoric that tax cheating is rampant. BTW, Americans appear to be generally more law-abiding on taxes than Europeans. https://t.co/qVavQ9bHu8

Comedy is now legal on Twitter

If successful, a Colorado ballot initiative covering five "natural medicines" would be the broadest liberalization of psychedelic policy ever approved in the U.S.

Catch me today 3-4pm on Cities 92.9 with @ProfSuess recapping my remarks from this event - learn all about why #Amendment1 is a tax hike in disguise and the last desperate attempt to cement special interest control. Voting “no” is an opportunity to bring power back to people.

This is the face of authoritarianism - even though it looks different than you were taught to expect. And it's the mindset of tyrants everywhere: This is someone so inebriated by her sense of righteousness and superiority that she views dissent as an evil too dangerous to allow:

People are now less interested in trying to stop others from consuming marijuana, even if they don't care to use the stuff. https://t.co/hYcSMXcV6i

Damn.

Watch experts discuss how environmental, social, governance (ESG) strategies and trends are impacting public pension systems and taxpayers. https://t.co/Rh0hqgK7Ms

@stacydavisgates @CTULocal1 .@stacydavisgates, as president of @CTULocal1 could you unpack this tweet for the class?

Government officials are increasingly using informal pressure—bullying, threatening, and cajoling—to sway the decisions of private platforms and limit the publication of disfavored speech. https://t.co/wAPr8CT18O #Cato1A

Not only is food getting more abundant, but it also takes less land to produce. In 2014, thanks to rising yields, growing a given quantity of crops required 70% less arable land than it did in 1961. Explore the data: https://t.co/2qvSGZWK1B

Chicago Public Schools enrollment is now down to just 321,000 from a peak of nearly 600,000 – despite the fact that the district's per-pupil operating spending has more than doubled since 2000. Families are voting with their feet. Data below is CPS + newspaper archives.