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.
What will gas prices climb to when a hurricane forms in the Gulf? Season starts in 2 days.
Gas is $5.50 a gallon by me in the suburbs.
Thankfully Wisconsin is just about a 10 mile round trip for us. Rarely buy fuel in Illinois and gas in Wisconsin is consistently $0.30 a gallon cheaper the difference has been as high as $0.90 cents a gallon cheaper. Large purchases from there as well with a straight 5.5% sales tax. Automobiles bought there as well and only pay the 6.5% state (illinois) and none of the local county taxes which could run the taxes up to 9%. Just the other day the gas station I visit was jammed, 8 pumps full and about 10 vehicles waiting to gas up,… Read more »