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.
I think most of their problems are caused by the feds stalling the process to reschedule cannabis to a schedule 3 drug as opposed to s1 where it is now with heroin and fentanyl.
Leave it to IL to screw up pot by overtaxing it. The beast has to be fed before anyone else can make a dime.
IL taxes are not the worst problem for cannabis entrepreneurs. IRS schedule 280e prohibits them from deducting business expenses from their taxable income. This punitive law goes away when cannabis is rescheduled to 3.