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.
Increases in taxes should not surprise anyone. This has been happening for decades and it will continue for decades to come.
Congratulations to state democrats for raising taxes while not fixing the problem. That they are the problem is the problem that will remain unsolved.
Speaker Welch readily admits that there is an explicit but unwritten co-governance agreement between labor and elected officials. A billion “ceded” by labor had to be replaced with something else so the taxpayers must pay more, more. We will not survive this death by a thousand cuts because we cannot feed the beast enough to satisfy it.
The RTA portion of the sales tax is increasing from 1.0% to 1.25%, a 25% increase. Our lovely politicians excel at hiding taxes and fees.
And once again suburban Cook County, collar counties, and downstate on the hook to bail out incompetent Chicago without a requirement that CTA restructure and cot out wasteful spending political hires. Another example of taxation without representation.