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.
My property market ‘valuation’ is what I paid for it whether it was purchased 5 years, 20 years or 50 years ago. The assessors unrealized hocus pocus math valuation in present day dollars based on houses selling nearby is as equally irrelevant as the failed ‘unrealized gains tax’ congress tried to ram through on the billionaires. Just another day for Cook county mafia protection racket’s biannual fleecing of mortgage holders aka homeowers err sheep
It’s not Kaegi himself who sets assessments, or who polices assessment process. Assessor Department staff, administration to administration, review and set assessments. Department managers could certainly stand stronger scrutiny from Federal law enforcement.
people in Chicago have no idea what it’s like to pay real property taxes, come out to the burbs especially will county we’re the school districts rape you blind every year
What Crains’s is saying that Kaegi can squeeze much much more tax dollars out of these properties and redistribute it to a select few who voted him in as a sincere Thank You.