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.
Watch out for the push for a city income tax in the spring session of the Illinois legislature. The mayor is already maneuvering on it. The city has an annual shortfall in the roughly billion dollar range, and that’s not providing anything for the illegal alien expenses, or any meaningful contribution to the pension hole. There is no other revenue source that can provide the huge jump in revenues required by all these leftie proposals. Property tax, financial transactions tax, jump in sales tax– nothing comes close to generating enough.
Well BJ, they tried this in Detroit and biz picked up and left!
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