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.
What is leaves out is states like Texas, Tennessee and Florida have seen the wisdom of eliminating income tax entirely. DeSantis and Abbot would welcome IL enacting a sliding scale income tax since the rates won’t be part of a constitutional amendment.
As an escapee from IL, I’d be more than happy to see a progressive tax passed, and hopefully live long enough to see the consequences. More middle class leaving as tax burden falls on them, retirees pensions taxed, and tax rates manipulated. Should be good for a couple more laughs. Meanwhile, here in my red state, I see property taxes lowered, state income tax lowered and soon to disappear.
Democrat tax plan in Illinois…
First they came for the millionaires
And I did not speak out
Because I was not a millionaire
Then they came for me
And there was no one left
To speak out for me