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.
Aurora has the high property taxes,because socialist politicians , who have been in power here, think that it is only fair.
Woodstock IL property tax rates are now 3.5% of fair market value, down from recent 5% of fair market value. Imagine the effect on household conditions when median income households living in median value homes are required to pay over 9% of household income to property taxes? (All over America, families pay pay less than 4% of households income in property taxes). When 5% “extra” of household income is conscripted in taxes, what must that household give up? College savings for kids? Household pets? Certainly they must give up any local-economy discretionary spending. What value is this extra 5% of… Read more »