Overview. The Department of Education spends about $30 billion a year on subsidies for higher education. The bulk of that funding goes toward student aid programs, with the balance going toward grants to educational institutions.ote that the figures for loans are the net amount of federal support, based on assumptions about loan repayments. The gross amount of loans is much largerâin fiscal 2008, the gross amount of loans was $110 billion. In recent years, Congress has expanded subsidies for higher education.
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The property tax is the largest single tax in Illinois, and is a major source of tax revenue for local. government taxing districts. Every person and business in Illinois is affected by property taxes â. whether by paying the tax or receiving services or benefits that are paid for by property taxes. â¢ Owners of real property (like a house, land, commercial or industrial buildings) pay property. taxes directly.