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.
The title of the article says: “no property tax hike (for Chicagoans) if Springfield chips in,” but the body of the article says no “big property tax hike.” So, which is it? I’ll go way out on a limb and say it’s the latter. Either projected outcome will not likely happen, because Lightfoot probably defines a big property tax as a huge one; you know, the opposite thinking of how Pritzker will be defining the affluent for his progressive state income tax. Also, a more informative title would be: no property tax hike for Chicagoans if the rest of IL… Read more »