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.
The treats from your elected officials seem more like the proverbial prank flaming bag of doo- doo on your front porch.
Tollway tax is just another way to tax suburban residents to fund Chicago. There are no tollways in Chicago. Maybe make Chicago expressways toll roads so that Chicago can put some “skin in the game”.
Need a law you can’t transfer money from one fund to make up a shortfall in another fund !!
Increasing toll rates and sales taxes is not “moving around” money. It is increasing taxes, again.
I wish to thank the Illinois Legislature and the Chicago City Council for making our travel plans from Iowa to Chicago so much easier. Previously we would drive down the Illinois Tollway to downtown Chicago, park, stay in a hotel, shop, eat at restaurants, gas-up, and drive home after a nice weekend. Then as taxes exploded, we would gas up at the state line, stay ever further out in hotels outside the collar counties, do no shopping, drive downtown for the day only, park in a secret free space, and drive back out . Now with the Illinois Tollway increase,… Read more »
The leaders of the State of Illinois are morons and that’s the only easy to describe them. Every move they makes causes more people to move or avoid Illinois or Chicago. The democrats ruining the state are just too dumb to understand that fact.