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.
Wow! Look at that list of tax increases. Kiss the business community in Chicago Good-Bye! And he must have missed his History class when he was out protesting everything under the sun. Many of those taxes have already been tried in Chicago or other places, and have often been repealed or reduced because they have proven to scare away business.
To turn this mess around, Chicago and Illinois need ethical leaders who have business and financial acumen and who have no leanings to public unions. Until such leaders are in place, the death spiral will continue.