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.
This is a consumer tax not a true tax on cpu and data storage in the cloud. If the city wanted to it can tax that which would literally generate billions In revenue per year. Then you would see business scream! Amazon web services, Microsoft AZURE or Google clod services tax would be huge. Companies run many systems there now rather than investing in their own expensive data center build outs.
Of course every business would leave Chicago, but for a while it would generate 10’s of billions in revenue if you taxed every byte of data egress.