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.
Can’t find the exact numbers, but IIRC revenues came in roughly 40% lower than the city expected the first year the bag tax kicked in, and similar results are expected for 2018. The state is going to wind up getting people to change their behavior, and will not come close to the revenues forecast for the tax.
And if the city and state were only interested in saving the environment, they’d mandate all the money from the tax go to Greenpeace or another environmental advocacy group.