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.
Center Square posted this a couple of days ago, regarding a report that the State Auditor General released in June. It’s sort of interesting. Some of them actually completed their work but for some reason are still listed. The “Property Tax Relief Task Force” released a “draft final” report which (if I understand how wirepoints’ site works now) is posted here. It contains no surprises, but notes that ” The state has created property tax study commissions in the recent and not-so-recent past, including in 1982, 1996, 1998, and 2009. None of them solved the problem. A new study is to… Read more »