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.
Don’t look now, but Canada is waffling on their tariffs re fuel to the US. Who else are they going to sell it to? The customer is always right.
I thought Illinois was a big agricultural exporter? But Frerichs is okay with Canada’s existing 250% to nearly 400% tariffs placed on these agricultural products by Canada, but instead calls out Trump’s significantly smaller proposed tariffs? He should be going to Canada to convince them to lower their tariffs on agriculture. Shows which side he is on – he is an anti-American.
Whatever the merited or demerits of Trumps tariff issue, Pritzker labeling them “a tax on workers” is beyond rich with irony. Fueled up the car in central IN at $2.89 this weekend en route the Chicago area, cutting through the near southside gas was $4.19. Highest gas tax in the country. One example of a tax on workers, there are a million more Pritzker could review.
Looks like the stock market is denouncing them too.