Totaling the unsustainable tax increases and windfall revenue during Pritzker Administration – Wirepoints
May 26, 2026
10 Comments
With $162 billion more from taxpayers, couldn’t you deliver a few bond upgrades, too
-- Connecting the dots between our economy, government and business --
Audio and summary 
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.
This is how you leverage negotiations when your government representatives are just too dumb to understand they need to take business concerns seriously.
Translation…go ahead Brandon, try and impose a city tax on trades.
I hope Zippy reads this article. Go ahead and
Try to place a financial transaction tax on
Trades at the CME. The CME trips some remote switches and BINGO, bye bye Zippy.
If they’re partnering with Google I would imagine that makes it even easier to switch to another data center. Pritzker said he won’t allow it but what about the next governor.