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.
To the writer of this article, well done. Very concise. I like Effingham also, so I can understand this person who may have to leave that location after so many years.
I have always complimented our surrounding states on their handling of Covid and their governmental leadership for how they’re getting things done. So now Indy and other people want to kick this person down, you should be ashamed of yourselves. The problem is Illinois LOL governor JB.
That’s the price you pay for living in Illinois.
You’ve had years & years to pack the UHaul but you didn’t. Time to suffer the consequences of that inaction.
At 1.7% of home value she could consider herself lucky. In Belvidere it’s approx 3% and Rockford is close to 4% and was over 5% a few years back. These high property taxes have kept homes from appreciating for decades now so to move to another area prices have gone up steadily so the spread is getting wider daily. What would help is that seniors should be exempt from school taxes on their properties. That would cut the taxes by more than half.
Heck, I’d take a 50% reduction in school taxes…
But then who would pay for the kids
indoctrinationeducation…???