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.
A couple of years ago I was at the Cabelas in Hoffman Estates. The customer in front of me had a shopping cart with a bulk pack of lead bullets, just bullets that he was going to use for reloading. At checkout the clerk told him about the additional tax per bullet. He looked stunned and said “no thanks” and walked out the door leaving the cart, the bullet packs and more things in the cart. I told the clerk that he must not be from around here or he was ignorant of the bullet tax. She said that walk… Read more »