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.
Apparently, Chicago pols don’t understand this death by a thousand cuts mentality of constantly creating or increasing taxes and fees incentivizes businesses to leave the city and dissuades other businesses from setting up shop there. To most of us with a decent financial skill level, this phenomenon is rather obvious.
As Mayor Brando Johnson has proven time and again, “There is no patch for STUPID!”