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.
It would be so difficult to collect services taxes especially from smaller businesses that are barely reporting their income to begin with. Imagine having to register with the state every hairstylist, landscaper, barber, criminal defense attorney, tax preparer storefront, handyman, contractor, roofer, snow plow, uber driver and other professional, and requiring them to remit 10% of their income as a “services” tax on a regular basis. These people barely pay quarterly taxes and often get a tax refund back at the end of every year. It would be extremely difficult to get every one to comply with, and imagine how… Read more »
The citizens replied no thanks.
The entire report by the day drinkers at the Civic Federation detailed how Illinois is a terrible place to live and do business, even saying that the tax burden is too high. Their solution?
Raise taxes.
Thanks for nothing, doltish day drinkers of the Civic Federation.
The just have to find a way to tax
Prostitution, I mean sex workers when they legalize it.Il. is drowning in taxes, so let’s add one more brick to the life jacket.
With the extra tax money they will just spend more. Taxes on services should only happen when they reduce the size of government and reduce property taxes.
Did they factor in more businesses fleeing the state if that happens?
No, they don’t care. They view living and operating a business in Illinois as privilege that you will pay dearly for, and if you don’t like it, you can leave.