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.
Really it kind of is a non-issue. Upper middle class people in they city have zero, literally zero reason to complain about higher taxes. that’s who they vote for, they vote for candidates who openly advocate to raise taxes on the ‘rich’. There should be no surprise when it turns out ‘they’ are actually the rich. I tell upper middle class progressives in the city this all the time. The poor people in chicago barely pay taxes any ways, and the tax bill which is factored into rent really isn’t all that much. Most landlords lose money in real estate… Read more »