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===“We have to learn to live within our means,” she said.=== Illinois has a structural gap between it’s revenues and it’s spending that is projected to get worse as we’re currently on the hook to pay for pension benefits that “we” didn’t want to pay for in the 1980s, 1990s, and 2000s. When an elected official of any party makes a statement like the one Comptroller Mendoza has provided they should be required to immediately explain which programs they want to see cut or which revenues they want to see increased and how. Our elected officials must be broken of the habit of making bland and generic statements related to our fiscal health that are meaningless on their surface. We’re not a family of 4 struggling on two working class incomes, we’re a state of 12 million people with a GDP that was nearing 900 billion dollars in 2019. This statement is a meaningless platitude that contributes nothing of substance to resolving our state’s structural budget issues an

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