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.
Yeah, but he cleverly got what he wanted once you figure in the parking tax, the bottle tax, the plastic bag tax, the hotel tax, the breathing CHI air tax , the sidewalk tax and the saying hello to someone tax. All faithfully bourne by the biggest chumps in the world, the IL taxpayers.
Chicago taxpayers
With the increasing exodus of taxpayers from Cook County, look for the rest of IL to be pressed into keeping the sinking ship CHI afloat.