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.
The baseline is a one bedroom apartment in a major city, which not how most people live, and it doesn’t cover the disparity between low income and high income areas. Most people in cities live in units larger than one bedroom and live outside of the city limits. Chicago and the above median suburbs are plenty expensive with taxes, gas, real estate taxes, insurance, food, etc. It’s certainly got to be in the top 10.