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.
“Investment activity is pulling back here as investors are struggling to come to grips with future tax liabilities at the state and local level. ” Stupid article using fancy finance terms to obfuscate the issue. Kaegi has totally F’ed up the commercial tax structure in Cook County and you’d had to be completely insane to purchase property right now. Lake County has adopted the ‘get woke, go broke’ mentality to government finances, and businesses are fleeing the county in droves, leaving in their wake empty office parks, office towers and strip malls. I drove past a strip mall in Buffalo… Read more »