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 crazy. You raise property taxes an unbelievable amount, then spend some of that money on an outside firm to hand out $1,000 to only those homeowners who are aware of the program and can actually figure out how to apply. But only for one year. Here’s an idea – an across the board reduction in property taxes to what the homeowner paid in 2023, with an increase of no more than 2%.
Ugh, more handouts at our expense