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I disagree
There are other impacts to a gas tax holiday than simply whether the consumers save $28 or not. If the gas tax is not collected, then the highway fund loses that money. When they do not have money coming in from the gas tax, they have to stop repairing our highways and bridges. When they do that, it throws a lot of construction workers and companies out of work for the entire summer. These factors may not have been at work on the state level in Illinois.
In politics, it never pays to look at an issue from the smallest level; you have to move back and look at the entire picture and how each decision ripples out in multiple directions.