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.
Let’s see a list of cuts or reforms? I’m waiting—–Still waiting—–And waiting. Never Mind!
Someone has to help pay for the illegal aliens Pritzker and Johnson allow in. Pucker up citizens – you voted for this.
And more scheduled for next year and the year after that. This is no end to tax increases. Must happen just to fund the underfunded pensions.
More taxes and fees making the citizens that demand seemingly endless assorted services pay for them…Cool!
No cuts, just higher taxes on everything. But hey you stupes didn’t get your real estate tax increased. Quite honestly, just how stupid, slavish, sheepish, self loathing and lacking in just plain self respect do you have to be to stay in that place? I struggle to understand why any American would willingly accept the slave status that you people in Chicago and Illinois so happily accept.
Roots. You find yourself held in place by family and friends. The secret to leaving Chicago is abandoning your life to move somewhere else, or not coming here in the first place.