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.
CME should lobby Pritzker and ILGA for a constitutional amendment banning all financial transaction taxes. Force them to express their true beliefs in that vote. And if it fails because of CTU screwball misinformation, move.
This new administration isn’t concerned by Chicago financial-sector business community interests. Don’t think new administration is concerned by ANY business community issues, other than providing money-spigot of grants to politically-connected POC “start-up” MBE entrepreneurs.
5.5% corporate tax rate in Florida and 9.5% in IL? Sounds like the state is already charging a tax.
Here is a ‘magical plan’ that is done in other states and would work in Chicago – a city income tax. With a income tax, Chicago would effectively ‘mine for tax revenue’ the area out through the West and NW suburbs and up to Kenosha.
Jack they’ve had one in Detroit since 1962 and they’ve mined most productive people and businesses right out of Detroit.
I’ve only been to Detroit once, about a decade ago, and it was exactly how I imagined it would be. Actually, It was worse than I imagined, it was almost as if danger lurked everywhere in the air, you’d be in a nice suburb but hear bass emanating from low-rider cars at all hours of the night. There were large, random office buildings that would otherwise have been built in Detriot, where instead located in the middle of random suburbs; even the nicer suburbs looked half blighted. It seemed that one wrong turn anywhere, including the suburbs, would take you… Read more »
Pritzker’s sock puppet reemerges from under his rock. Crawl back into irrelevance Miller.
Timer set on Miller’s down vote; starting……..now.
Lol, TPG… just *who* are these cowardly pukes who are constantly down – voting, but are too a – scared to reveal their poor puny selves from under their slimey rocks…!!!???
It is hilarious that Miller has such a thin skin thatXXXX. Miller is the poster child of the 99% of “journalists” who are actually Democrat Pravda propaganda shills. The world would be a better place without Miller and his fellow Democrat Pravda parrots in it.
Your commentary is so insightful how could I resist.
Tom, don’t make up factual assertions about somebody that you don’t know to be true, please. We edited out your claim.
Fair enough. Please allow me to rephrase: “It is hilarious that Miller has such a thin skin that it appears to me that he uses multiple browsers and web addresses to down vote any Wirepoints comments about him with which he disagrees. I deeply doubt that he has 12 to 15 Capitol Fax followers that are so robotically loyal to monitor Wirepoints for him and downvote on his behalf. Miller is the poster child of the 99% of “journalists” who are actually Democrat Pravda propaganda shills. The world would be a better place without Miller and his fellow Democrat Pravda… Read more »
You tell em Tom. If you are only left with factual assertions you will have nothing to say. Don’t let Mark hold you back in spreading your truth.
It seems there is some good to Miller’s reporting. He is letting the far left know that Pritzker, and likely others inclined in many cases to support a new tax, that a financial services tax is just not going to happen. I don’t care for Pritzker but he happens to be right on this score.