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.
These renters are price-gouging
A necessary component of a ‘rent freeze’ is a ‘real estate property tax freeze’ as a substantial portion of every tenant’s rent goes to the local government. The landlord is just the middle man doing the collection on behalf of the county. Naive renters don’t quite understand that $700 of their $1,200 rent goes directly to pay the pensions of people who no longer work for the government, but instead, are in red states in their cheaper housing, fishing and boating their retirement time away. It’s all a big mess as it’s all interconnected. A generalized rent strike means that… Read more »