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.
5% pay increase the gall of you Springfield mafia, people in Illinois are suffering from high taxes for decades , property tax bills that just came out are more then likely to cause some people to lose there homes and you give yourselves another pay raise. Again, property tax reform but there is not one politician in Springfield that can figure out this mess, and as for the feckless Republicans just leave the party and turn democrat because your all spineless traitors. It’s time for the taxpayers in Illinois to decide if you so called politicians get a pay raise… Read more »
Clearly the Republican party in IL has too few truly commonly held beliefs. Is it any wonder they have no power at the moment?
They have no power at the moment because of their own accord and actions