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.
Then, the tax bill more than doubled to more than $12,000 a year.
Boo-hoo-hoo Twila, I was paying that eight years ago living in Will County. The new owners of our old home are paying $15K/year. PPF needs his retirement money honey!
Note to ABC7 paid interns Jason Knowles and Maggie Green:
Communities of ALL colors are overtaxed in Illinois. This is what happens when political animals can’t say no to government employees’ expensive demands.
It’s all about the “ folks in the community “. They have suffered like no one else in history, by some people’s estimation.
Preckwinkle needs to stop overtaxing suburbs to fund Chicago.