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.
Rockford is around 4% of value and for a time was over 5%. Values have gone nowhere except for last year. Many home values are still within a few dollars of value from 1992. So how does someone move from here and go where values have risen steadily because of low property taxes for decades? This is nothing short of being Theft of Equity by Excessive Taxation.