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.
My junkers back in the 70s were about fifty bucks per year.
An expensive car will have a yearly plate fee that can exceed the monthly payment.
This reminds me of living in Michigan. Once upon a time the plate renewal was based on vehicle weight.
As vehicles became lighter they changed the formula so the plate charge was a function of vehicle sales price or current market value.
To make a long story short it’s two to three hundred bucks per year now for my economical type vehicles.