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 retailers saying “this puts online sellers on even ground with local shops who must charge higher prices to account for local taxes and fees” is a flawed argument the way I see it when one considers the assorted tax subsidies kicked to the reatailers in my area. They get tifs. tax abatements, edge credits and all sorts of home rule tax gimmicks to help them out. Somehow they forget that in their logic but the real issue here is once again Illinois taxing bodies want more money…and the beat goes on.