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.
I have a bone to pick on this issue. It seems that many are screaming, “but…free market!” The problem with this logic is that it fails to acknowledge that food trucks use the public way, exclusively. They do not pay property taxes. To be able to just plop a truck in the middle of the street in front of any restaurant that pays the bills causes a pragmatic problem of harm to the city, in that it undermines the ecosystem of taxation as it is currently structured. There is nothing barring a food truck from renting a private plot of… Read more »