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.
Head taxes are just horrible ideas.
They tried this in Seattle. There’s a whole story there – passed and repealed a month later. So idiotic.
Tried again during COVID. Again knocked down.
If they couldn’t get it to work in Seattle, when they were trying to target Amazon…. why do they think it will work in Chicago?
I guess no one in City Hall has ever looked at the history of this tax in Chicago. Thirty years ago, and for a few years afterward, it was someone’s brilliant idea until the results became obvious and the tax was appropriately repealed. But now this is the new cutting edge revenue generator? If the mayor had anyone on his staff who was at all competent they would know the history of this dumb idea and dump the entire concept immediately.