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.
Yes, tax retirement because Chicago’s population isn’t shrinking fast enough.
Yes, so 20th century to only tax goods. Must tax small businesses that provide services like hair stylists, landscapers, yoga instructors and the local plumber. Because they’re ‘rich’. Anyone not living off the dole in Chicago is ‘rich’ and should be taxed for it. As if Chicago couldn’t be any more unlivable of a place…