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.
I guess everything is temporary unless it can last until the end of time, or maybe that’s temporary, too. Remember the last temporary IL state income tax increase?
I remember all the temporary sales tax increases that people voted for but then became permanent with a new city council here in Belvidere. Like the new council said. We are not required to uphold what the previous council did. So the taxpayers got stuck again with higher taxes.