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.
This is all part of the Pritzker for President 2024 campaign. Fatboy can claim that he lowered taxes in Illinois and the Pravda media will repeat nationwide.
If the big man were really interested in tax relief for all IL taxpayers statewide, he would reduce the nation’s highest gasoline taxes east of the Rockies.
Illinois has more units of local tax governance, than any other state except Texas, which is as big as IL, WI, MI, OH, and Indiana combined.
Georgia has a similar problem with counties. Whilst at one time having a lot of little governments made sense, when transportation and communication was difficult, it’s just a redundant burden now.
Nebraska has long trying to reduce it’s redundancy but so far only managed to go from a bicameral legislature to a unicameral legislature.
The pols never think of the consequences or costs of any bill presented or laws enacted. That is a problem for down the road. Every community will come up with some tax to compensate and a few will most likely be higher than 1%. When the 3% compounding was being discussed in the Omnibus Pension Bill Sen Shuneman was the only one concerned with what it will cost down the road. He asked millions/billions and did not get a definitive answer. Most of the pols have no background in finance yet are in charge of a $50B budget every year.… Read more »