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.
In 1980 Decatur had a population of 94,000. The 2020 census shows 69,000 inhabitants… that’s all you need to know about Decatur…
Decatur is listed year in and out as one of the worst places in IL to live. The stink from ADM was not to be believed and there were a lot of crumbling, abandoned houses and jobless men standing around in the middle of the day on quite a few corners when I last visited. I couldn’t get out of there fast enough.
Houses are cheap in Decatur, Illinois, due to a declining population and labor force, low median household income, a high unemployment rate, and a decline in the quality of some housing stock. <source Google AI>
In other words, “affordable” doesn’t correlate to “nice.”
With the draconian tax and fee levels in place in Illinois, is it possible for an Illinois city to be the most affordable in the U.S.? Yeah, I didn’t think so, either.