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.
Number one priority in DuPage is public safety? Assuming this isn’t posturing on the part of Deb, it just illustrates the trash that’s moved into the suburbs.
Good for them grabbing it when they could. Not the least bit surprising the tax was partly created to cover pensions. And the financially inept legislators are actually considering increasing Tier 2 benefits?
‘Transportation tax’ used to fund courts & police…?
Makes perfect sense in (D) land…
This article apparently was posted on 10/28, so it doesn’t tell us what’s in the actual law passed on 10/31. But it is interesting to know that “RTA” sales tax money in DuPage is mainly spent on cops and roads.
DuPage went into the toilet when Democrats took over, how typical..