[Rury]

It's not as much as you'd think. For Illinois, lottery alone nets something like $3 billion, of which ~$700-750 million goes to funding public schools. Public schools expenditures are ~$35 Billion/year. So, less than 1/35th of costs. Add in the alcohol, tobacco, weed, gambling taxes, and you still not even close to covering half the state's school expenditures.

Granted, Illinois is perhaps the most fiscally screwed state, so might not be best example...

[bogomipz]

>"Public schools expenditures are ~$35 Billion/year."

That all appears way off.

"This year, the governor plans to increase the state’s education general fund by $498.1 million — a 5.4% increase — for an overall budget of $9.7 billion."[1]

Additionally the Illinois state gas tax which is the second highest in the US is 40 cents a gallon.[2][3]

[1] https://chicago.chalkbeat.org/2022/2/2/22914634/pritzker-pro...

[2] https://www.axios.com/local/chicago/2022/03/22/illinois-gas-...

[3] https://www.illinoispolicy.org/illinois-2nd-highest-gas-taxe...

[Rury]

That was just Pritzker's proposal for the state's portion of the elementary and secondary education general fund. There are other funds to account for, as well as the federal's contribution which are past proposal and have been enacted. Better source is to grab straight from Illinois.gov's site [1].

Look at: Fiscal Year 2022 Budget, Table I-A Operating and Capital (xls) - Cell J373 + Cell J438.

Total Elementary And Secondary Education = $27.7B. Total Higher education = $4.7B.

So ~$32.5B for FY22.

[1] https://www2.illinois.gov/sites/budget/Pages/BudgetBooks.asp...