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 premise in this article that the SALT deduction benefited the wealthy is false. The top 1% were caught in the alternate minimum tax (AMT) and were never really able to claim it. The primary beneficiaries were the upper-middle class.