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.
A number of people who were near their threshold of pain will now have passed it and will move out of IL, as the exodus continues. If IL’s goal is to accelerate the rate of exodus, these types of events will do it. Keep up the good work!
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Fake post Mark
Thanks for the heads up. We have blocked him now.
This is because Preckwinkle and Cook county don’t care about the suburbs and think that we only exist to tax to support Chicago. Look at the lack of health care services in southern suburban Cook county.
There are at least three separate problems here: (1) The cost of public “services,” particularly schools, is too high. Wirepoints has provided good information about this. (2) The biggest part of real estate tax is for local (school,municipal, etc) services. So areas with a poor tax base, if they want services comparable to wealthier areas, have to pay high taxes relative to property value. This can be addressed with tax base sharing, as has been done in Minnesota since before most Chicagoans were born. (3) The real estate tax is imposed on improvements as well as land. Exempting all improvements… Read more »
“”It’s a broken system. Broken,” said Cook County Treasurer Maria Pappas.”
HOMEWOOD IS D+51. PARK FOREST IS D+60. THEY VOTED FOR THIS. THEY VOTED FOR THIS OVER, AND OVER AGAIN, EVERY ELECTION FOR DECADES. and they’ll vote Democrat again in November.
You stupid, stupid, stupid Democrats deserve every calamity that life brings you.
So what would you suggest the folks there should have voted for instead?
For starters, they could have voted for someone other than FRITZ KAEGI who assesses their properties. This past election they could have voted fro Kari Steele in the primary or Nico Tsatsoulis the libertarians who got 17% of the vote. Kaegi won Bloom Township 87 to 13%, with the libertarian fewer voters in Bloom than countywide.
Then we can look at the school boards and townships and city halls. It will 100% the same Democrat leadership. ALWAYS VOTE BLUE NO MATTER WHO!