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.
I tell you what Springfield you are pushing everyones patience to the brink in Illinois. Tax tax tax tell everyone what they are going to do. If I wanted to live under communist rule I would move to a communist country.
Rep Ann Williams said, “The goal of the fee “is not to make money”. Let’s take a closer look at the Carryout Bag Fee Act which “Provides that a carryout bag fee of $0.10 is imposed on each carryout bag used by a customer at retail establishments”… “except in municipalities with a population greater than 1,000,000” – Chicago gets to keep their 7 cent bag tax all for themselves. “with $0.03 being returned to the retail establishment” – It costs retailers 30% to administer?!?! $0.04 into the Carryout Bag Fee Fund – It costs the state 40% to administer?!?! “$0.01… Read more »
The irony is that I often buy things in Chicago, and quite frankly, the law is barely enforced. I only get asked if I want a bag at the largest of retailers, and even then, it’s spotty enforcement, as everything gets put into a bag, but I don’t get charged the .07 cents. As a further joke, the law permits an exception for ‘reusable’ bag, which is just like a regular bag except 3 layers thick, and everyone still throws them in the garbage anyways.