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.
This tax rate increase is NOTHING compared to what will happen in the years to come. Every year for as far as the eye can see Taxes will go up, up and away. Their is a HUGE pension time bomb going off right now. Run for your economic life or get run over by it. PPF and the likes of him have stolen money from generations to come. As more people leave the cost per taxpayer goes up and up causing more people to leave. Soon only the poor and the greedy government worker will be left. Once a great… Read more »
The continued federal bailouts of billions of dollars to mismanaged blue states slows the “pension time bomb” you speak of. If a Republican is elected president, one would hope the feds don’t send billions of dollars to these states every time the states ask for it. If the spigot is turned off or the flow significantly reduced, that would force these mismanaged states to, you know, manage taxpayer funds responsibly. What a concept!