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.
Michigan is a blue state without a single toll road. Yes, it can be done but some connected folks would have to go back to work.
And who aspires to become a toll booth collector?
An increase in tolls is just ridiculous. The tollway in particular is sitting on a billion dollars and does not need the cash. Serious question, does any politician actually work for the citizens of this state to stop the fleecing?
Net position (2013) – $2,246,335,592
Net position (2023) – $4,228,879,440
Didn’t JBgerrymander just divert $300 million from the highway fund to non highway expenses? Aside from the fact that the tollways were supposed to become toll free once the original construction was done (did anyone really trust that would happen?), why are we income taxed to pay tolls on any road if the money meant for roads goes to, I don’t know, pensions?
Most of the modernization is intended to be able to tax people more while using the roads. So, not only do we have to have our income tax dollars used to build the roads, we need to pay tolls to use the roads and now they are building mechanisms to meter our use and bill us accordingly. Oh and we get to pay for them to buy the tools to do so…Illinois government is against it’s own residents.