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.
What I don’t understand about these tax-by-mile systems is the potential privacy solution. Of course I don’t want to share my GPS data with the government, but there ought to be a simple way to just share odometer mileage and have it signaled whether it occurs onside Illinois or outside of Illinois. Its a simple binary question. Yes inside Illinois or No outside of Illinois. And what happens with mileage outside of Illinois? is the driver invoiced by each state (that’s essentially what happens with gasoline sales tax outside of state)? Otherwise drivers will game the system and register the… Read more »