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.
Rather than a head tax, perhaps a “foot tax” on those leaving the jurisdiction would be more remunerative.The collar counties are no doubt gleefully anticipating their new tenants. Passing this grocery tax was a slam dunk way to keep the money with no actual new cost to residents. Whatever they now enact to replace it will be considered to be a new tax and they will take double the heat.