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.
So Alaska lost the most population to other states in percentage terms, but the narrative is that the underlying cause of outmigration is high taxes? Sorry, I don’t get it, because Alaska is not a high tax state – it has no state income or sales tax, reasonable property taxes, and every Alaskan actually receives a check from the state each year because it gets so much in royalties from oil companies.
Google is your friend:
https://www.alaskapublic.org/2019/01/22/alaskas-population-is-down-for-the-second-year-in-a-row-why/
At least for last year, it was a variety of reasons, including cost of living, work opportunities elsewhere, politics, fewer younger people are moving into the state, the population is getting older. Alaska has also been in a recession.
And let’s be honest, Alaska is a difficult place to live for anyone. I know I wouldn’t want to live there.
If the paragraph about New Jersey needing to lower the threshold for the top rate from $5 million down to $1 million since they aren’t getting the revenue they need to pay pensions doesn’t show IL residents what’s in store with the graduated tax, I don’t know what will. There’s a reason IL won’t put the brackets, rates, and exemptions into the amendment.