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.
Even with a 10% city income tax like NYC they would still find a bunch of cronies to pay and still wind up short each year… the city is ran like a super massive black hole
A ‘progressive’ commuter income tax will make my office move from Chicago to Rosemont quicker than bullets fly in Englewood. I won’t be paying any ‘commuter’ income tax because my office happens to be in Chicago. I spend less than 40 hours a week there; there is no good reason to give them 3.5% of my income for the privilege of spending an hour each way to get there a few times a week.
People don’t seem to understand overall tax burden. Adding another tax is no different than jacking up property or state income taxes.