Totaling the unsustainable tax increases and windfall revenue during Pritzker Administration – Wirepoints
May 26, 2026
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With $162 billion more from taxpayers, couldn’t you deliver a few bond upgrades, too
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A largely unasked question is becoming glaring: Is Illinois doing all it should to use artificial intelligence to make government cost less and work better? So far, the evidence says no.
One interesting thing for tax filers is that the April 15, 2020 date is the date by which any final tax must be paid. But self-employed filers apparently don’t need to make the first estimated payment, the April 15, 2020 payment on their 2020 taxes – that too has been postponed to July 15. So what happens to the June 2020 second estimated payment, and the September 2020 estimated payment? Think about that for a second – 3 out of the 4 estimated 2020 tax payments will be paid between June 15, 2020 and September 15, 2020 (with the final… Read more »