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.
The largest corruption factor in Illinois is property values being non-uniformly underassessed as a function of bribes or selective enforcement of laws and ordinances. Pritzker’s toilets is textbook example. (It is important to note that Pritzker’s toilets, as well as recently reported federal criminal findings of assessor bribe-taking for assessment reductions, occurred on the watch of Berrios being chief assessor). 1. For each illegally underassessed property, property tax RATES rise. This is a big deal even at small decimal place amounts: 0.0001% on a $300,000 home costs that homeowner $30 per year. But that’s just the beginning of homeowners’ losses… Read more »
I agree but why is it the value of the home or property determines the price you pay for the services rendered? Way too much emphasis is placed properties so a multi-pronged approach is needed to ween taxing bodies off from our homes as ATM machines. Maybe a local 1 to 1.5% county income tax plus maybe looking into bringing back the personal property tax like many states have. County income tax should have a hard cap with any changes need to be done on a referendum. Indiana has done this. All this MUST be done in exchange for lower… Read more »
But don’t dare vote the corrupt out of office