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.
All of them are united in the effort to bankrupt the state and its taxpayers. The only disagreement among them is who’s to blame; they all point fingers at each other. Their childish incompetence is devastating to the state.
With IL’s business growth effectively flat, population flat (declining if illegal immigration is ignored), and spending and taxes increasing, it will be fascinating to watch how, or if, someone can pull it out of a death spiral. At some point, the only people paying taxes will be the unions. It will be a closed-loop financial system that can’t survive.
Dear taxpayer, feeling like you are being screwed? It is because you are.