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.
How many union slugs does it take in IL to patch a pothole!?
Illinois leads nation in using tax laws to steal:
Illinois Taxes Gas Multiple Times. It Charges Sales Tax On The Base Cost Of Gas Plus The Federal Tax And Environmental Fees. Then It Adds State And Local Excise Taxes — Meaning It Makes Drivers Pay Tax On The Taxes. Most States Don’t Operate That Way
The roads should be paved in gold with that kind of revenue but probably 50% of that money has ended up in some politician’s pocket or doled out to relatives and friends to do nothing.
Yep, and we’ve got the best roads in the country to show for it.