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 takes $250K annually to just survive in Illinois! Then you really get the screws put to you.
Illinois will be the first state to declare bankruptcy. You watch and see! They already have their hand out for tax payer money to fix the shoreline of all those Democrat Lakefront properties.
My household income is near $250,000 and we live just fine, have savings, a house, two paid off cars, disposable income and so on. $250,000 is without a doubt, a lot of money, but you can live off a lot less than $250,000 in Illinois. $250,000 in Cali or NYC is a nothing burger, but it’s a decent income here.
First of all, $250,000 a year is not a lot, and secondly, I respectfully disagree that those ‘lucky’ enough to earn a whopping $250,000 should turn around and be required to fund IL’s retired pensioners.