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.
It’s unfortunate it was Dan Proft and not Ted that was on there. Ted would have ripped Martire to shreds. Ted is a numbers guy, and Dan had no real counter to Ralph’s math.
If Matire doesn’t think that tax policy affects peoples relocation decisions, he should visit the “Escaping Illinois” group on Facebook. He will be in for a very rude awakening.
Not once did Matire talk about cutting spending…. not once . All he spewed was more taxes on top of more taxes. Hi union puppeteers are paying him to lie and lie about high taxes are really not the reason residents have been literally leaving skid marks on crumbling toll-ways to exit IL . The unions only care about keeping the pension scam going and they don’t give a damn how many people they destroy in the process.