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.
These 1% school facilities tax increases have been proposed all over the state. They appear to be instigated by a financial management firm that guides school districts in the campaign (“it’s just a one-cent tax”) then get a cut as they work with the schools in managing the money. The schools are not the ones initially proposing this, it is an outside for-profit company promoting a tax increase for their benefit.
Hmm, is this proposal really for an additional one percent sales tax? For example, a 1 percent increase to a combined sales tax of 9 percent would result in a new tax rate of 9.09 percent. Or are they talking about 9 percent + 1 percent = 10 percent, which is a huge 11 percent increase? The latter is over a 100X greater than the former. I hope the school districts aren’t trying to trick their math-challenged residents.