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 ideas I gave to my local rep were not ignored but were not allowed to be presented in committee. Those states where property tax’s are lower they implemented either a local county income tax or personal property tax or various other tax’s or any combination of the previous. In Indiana for example a number of years ago assessors starting using the insurance replacement value as a basis for value minus depreciation. Tax’s skyrocketed and people said enough voted many out and new laws were put in place and now they have a 1% cap on residential and 2% on… Read more »
Of course property tax cut ideas were ignored, because implementing them would’ve meant hammering the taxpayer elsewhere to recoup the lost revenue. Therefore, the task force served no productive, meaningful purpose, which equates to abuse of taxpayer revenue.