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.
I was in the Cabelas in Hoffman Estates. A customer in front of me had a shopping cart with a bunch of merchandise in it. He loaded it up to be scanned and then a case of lead bullets appeared, 1000 lead bullets only to be used for reloading. Apparently this customer wasn’t from the Cook County area. The cashier rang everything up and the told the customer that there was a .05 cent a round “tax” on the bullets and that would be $50.00. The guy was speechless and just told her to forget it and walked out the… Read more »
When it was built about 15 years ago they were given millions of dollars in tax incentives which could have amounted to $18 million in it’s first 10 years. That’s why they built there. I’m sure when future Bass Pro / Cabelas are built they look at how local laws will affect their bottom line, but it’s tough to see 10 – 20 years down the road.