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.
Econ 101 – supply and demand. The supply of housing units needs to increase in order for rent to come down. Instituting rent control is a disincentive to develop more housing units. On the other side of the equation the way the city/state is bleeding residents maybe the demand will diminish.
Did the Housing Committee discuss that passing rent control legislation out of the State House Housing Committee might scare away some potential or current landlords during a time of increased crime and civil unrest?
Or maybe that is a goal of some during the march towards socialism.