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.
Sounds like modifying the estate tax exemption is off the table. There goes the farm.
Millionaires already pay more.
If Illinois wants more revenue they need a 10% service fee for a pension paid to a out of state retiree.
Reaping the benefits of Illinois and not contributing back by living here.
That would be illegal. What they should do is tax the retirement benefits for those that still live here.
“I have been a very big believer that the wealthy should pay more, that they should pay their fair share, and I think a surcharge tax on millionaires is an easy way to do it.”
This would’ve been a more meaningful quote from “Chris”: “I have been a very big believer that the wealthy should pay more, that they should pay their fair share, and I think a surcharge tax on millionaires is an easy way to accelerate the exodus of the wealthy from Illinois.”
Pritzker should also pay taxes on his overseas accounts.
Almost any teacher who retires has a PV pension worth over $1,000,000 (some over $2,000,000 plus) and the reason for the deficit.
Yep, but they are a protected special species, it is only those who actually built businesses and their own wealth that these blood suckers want to tax. That “pay their fair share” statement is ridiculous, who determined what percentage of tax is fair? The political morons in Springfield? Good God.
After my dad died, my mom married a former teacher who had retired at age 60. When he died, my mom became a millionaire. ( I guess that occurred sometime while they were married) She now also gets 1/2 of his pension with 3% annual increases.