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.
Unbalivable—would love to know what lobbying groups are behinde this one. Sure the gov unions members would be first to file..and they could get burke to dish out the settlements behind closed doors on the tax payers dime. Is this another progressive legislation idea copied from calf?
As usual, the other gigantic under the radar winner in this budget will be the lawyers & lawyer assoc. (Madigan & the boys stalled off the kagie prop tax bill)…has it ever bin a better time to be a $$ lawyer $$ in illinois?
It’s never been good time to be a lawyer in IL. The market is completely saturated. That’s why terrible bills like this come about. This is a special interests bill. There’s probably a handful of comp firms that have dozens of old, old cases that they can’t do anything with because the law does not favor their case….so you just rewrite the law! As for Madigan/Burke, etc. I bet they made a good living but my personal belief is that they didn’t make as much money doing property tax appeals as their big firm counterparts doing *real* lawyers work like… Read more »