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.
So glad we will finally be able to deal with those darn racist roads.
How about repaving Rt 64 west of Hyw 39?
More relatives, friends and high dollar donors are lining up for high paying state jobs because of all of this cash from the feds. $100K for salaries, $1.00 for repairs.
Will that lower our plates fees or gas taxes? What about the $45B passed for infrastructure? Where is that money because some local municipalities also increased their gas taxes for roads and bridges. Not one penny in those boondoggles for less corrosive road salts that are eating up our cars and vans/trucks from rust which costs us billions.
We in Illinois will never get a chance at lower taxes never.
Unfortunately, true.
Almost needed a defibrillator for this. They lowered trailer plates down to $36 from $118 after a lot of blowback. Still double but it helps. Shock and Awe!
So true Freddy pushback does work, but yet people keep taking it in the rear on property taxes until pushback as you stated starts strong and hard on property taxes Springfield and local taxing bodies will keep up the March to yours and mine wallets.
We worry about $118.00 dollars for a trailer sticker but not about a $8,000.00 dollars plus for property taxes go figure. And just to add my State Representative John Connor has had about enough of me on property taxes, but that’s ok I get it.