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 says 18 and under. Almost no one in that age group is leaving on their own. They move with their parents
Perhaps their parents expect that their children will get a better education in other states.
If a young person leaves Illinois for Florida, they can buy a house with the tax savings.
And use that tax savings to pay for property insurance. If they can even get coverage. Hurricanes will keep driving prices higher and higher.
You are dreaming, the cost of living is slightly lower in Florida. The quality of life is great, and the farther away from the excessive debt in Illinois the better. Stay and pay for all I care. I will take the Sun and Fun. Lots of Illinois pension money is down in Florida to stay.
Florida is a huge microwave oven to me. Not gonna do it.
I’ve had two nieces and one nephew go to school in FL and stay there after saying they wouldn’t. Hurricanes have not deterred them.
Additionally, kids from IL go out of state to college and find that other places are more appealing for various reasons such as moderate climate, geographically more interesting, lower cost of living, lower (or no) state income tax, etc., and as their parents retire elsewhere they have fewer ties to IL. Thats real too.
The little rats are deserving the sinking ship.