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.
Karl Marx would be proud
Why don’t we just stop the charade. Just confiscate the million dollar homes and give them to the couch dwellers too lazy to make something of themselves.
Increasing taxes on “x” to fund “y”. So visionary. And change it *after people bought property. If these advocates were ethical, the tax would only apply to properties purchased AFTER enacting the law. Then at least homebuyers know what they’re getting into. Even I’d be down for that. Guessing these advocates wouldn’t be.
How about setting aside some of the tax revenue from cannabis sales for housing?
TRY FIRING ALL THE DEAD WEIGHT IN CITY GOVERNMENT AND THERE WILL BE PLENTY OF MONEY FOR HOUSING
Confiscating those properties would probably house many more than 12,000 families. It seems to be getting illegal to own anything. Too much must be redistributed. What variant is infecting these politicians tax and spend brains?