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.
Hinz big idea is that state will increase taxes in exchange for lower property tax. Or in other words, state will start paying for all the pensions & benefits in Illinois rediculous 8,923 units of municiple gov..which would also entail a massive consolidation of all the plans and units of gov one would assume to be EQUITABLE?? Good luck with that. He also suprisingly tip-toes around endorsing the Moody’s $317 billion state pension debt # as upposed to $144 billion figure
ridiculous.