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.
Illinois has always been discouraging businesses in every way possible. It will continue to raise taxes till pensions are ended. That will not happen anytime soon so get used to higher and higher taxes. More small (and large) businesses will leave the state for other states, it only makes good economic sense.