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.
The homeowners in Illinois repeatedly vote for higher taxes and rarely does a tax bond referendum in the state fail. They vote for lefty school and park district boards that spare no expense. I know honest to goodness conservatives that vote for these tax increases because they believe that ‘the schools’ or ‘the parks’ are what keep our property values high relative to our neighboring towns. I know one guy that says he wants high property taxes because it keeps out the poor and undesirables and the tightwads who can’t or won’t pay high property taxes. And then six months… Read more »
Hello lawmakers what about the hard hit collar counties never a word huh, always poor ole Cook County.