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.
Sure, now start a new payroll tax. As if IL unemployment rate isn’t high enough already and that there are more government workers than private sector ones. Will this tax apply to government paychecks, too? Bet it won’t.