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.
My property tax bill in SC has six entities taking money. Fire protection, forest preserve, water treatment, school districts, and so on. No pensions, no townships, no road funds, no abatement districts, etc. while my tax bill in DuPage had 17 tax bodies, including airport, COD, and more. And each pension entity for schools, township, fire districts, got raise every year. And as I’ve said before, my SC tax bill went DOWN by about $25 all three years since we escaped IL.
Hmm, let’s defund public education. If you’ve got kids you pay to educate them.
But where will the free daily meals, counseling and general daycare in lieu of education for the underserved come from then? You don’t really expect these people to start accepting responsibility for their lives this late in the game, do you? It’s been going on for 60 years now with little to no change.
Well based on the statistics over the last 20 years, the number of kids that can reading and do math at grade level is inversely proportional to the amount of money going to CTU. De-funding schools will not only save the city money, the students will have the skills to get good paying jobs.