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.
When he’s up there at the podium with that confident smile on his face, I feel more at ease as an Illinois resident.
Did he explain that he funded these billions in projects by doubling the gasoline tax? Despite his pledge not to hurt the working man by increasing regressive taxes? All he did was increase that particular tax 100%! Of course, he didn’t stop there, oh no, not the fair and just Governor. He then indexed that ridiculous gasoline tax to inflation, just in time for Bidenomics record setting inflation. Keep those union boys employed and happy, regardless of the pain you inflict on others, right JB?
Isn’t there an adage that in politics, if you are explaining you’re losing?