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.
This is going on state wide. Here in Rockford, I pay $6,900 on a $157K home.Teachers at Rockford dist 205 just gave themselves a $20.6 million raise over 3 years. Then the non union school employees including the superintendent received raises. It never ends. Out tax rate is 14.8363% on 1/3rd value. $23,836.98 on a 500K home which there are very few. So our tax’s are higher than Oak Parks’s. We also have pension pickup for teachers.