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.
Are the poor leaving? Can’t afford to. Are the rich leaving? Like the Pritzkers, they can afford IL and profit. So who’s leaving? The middle class, taking with them their wealth and retirement, all to be spent in states other than IL. The question is not only who’s leaving, how much wealth are they taking with them?
First, if people choose to put their head in the sand and believe that the 2010 and 2020 are comparable, that’s on them. JB threw a ton of money into the 2020 census to ensure it counted every man, woman, child, cousin it and anything else that drew a breath. It is not an apples to apples comparison, and the Illinois population still declined. And if JB isn’t around to throw boatloads of cash at the 2030 census, it is going to be devastating for Illinois. Instead of addressing the causes behind the decline, the Dems say “good riddance”. That… Read more »