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.
Drove to Chicago to visit future inlaws this week. They were late due to a flat tire on their new car from hitting a pothole on LSD. Where is all this ‘road and infrastructure’ money going in Illinois?
Cayman Islands!
Salaries
Campaign funds?
Well Doh! Of course people are! Only idiot politicians cannot see why.
There is more than gas taxes accounting for the difference in Illinois and Missouri gas prices. Illinois taxes only account for 33 cents of the 70 cents differential. Something else is responsible for the other 37 cents. What could that be?
I do it all the time as I live within 5 minutes of the Wis border. Plus I give the finger to JB as I leave and again when I return. Usually $0.30 + cents a gallon savings but in a recent trip it was $0.94 cents a gallon cheaper.
JB and family probably do the same thing at his WI horse farm. We can only hope he owns draft horses.
What is interesting to me when visiting the border areas is the number of ‘Pritzer Sucks’ signs. They always make me smile. It would be great if Wisconsin could move its border about 20 miles south. That would make a lot of disgruntled people very happy.