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.
Some processors will leave the Illinois market and the ones that remain will simply raise their rates.
By all means, make it more difficult to complete transactions. People really enjoy standing in line while all the people in front of them try to figure out how and what they have to do. And if merchant processors decide not to play in Illinois, they’ll be new terminals all over the place. Illinois just can’t seem to get out of its own way.