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.
The only tax directly affecting consumers is the increase in the gas tax, but they’re so used to fluctuations in gas prices, they’ll barely notice. Taxes on businesses will affect them, but not in ways they’ll notice. Usual sneaky way for Dems to raise taxes.
Remember this as Butterworth sloshes around the state begging to be re-elected and sweats butter attending another money losing state fair this fall.
Expect more business to leave the state and take with them lots of jobs.
Not really. It’s Illinois. July 1st just bend over. It’s like fireworks on the 4th. Expected