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.
Offer landlords a long-term property tax freeze or a 50 cent property tax credit for every dollar of rent forgiveness up to a certain amount. On the flip side, for a renter to qualify for rent forgiveness, they should have to prove financial hardship. Also, the city should be able to come up with a payment plan where the renter is liable to payback 25% of what was forgiven. For example, if you’re a renter and qualify for $3,000 of rent forgiveness ($500/mo for 6 months), the landlord would get a $1,500 property tax credit and the renter would owe… Read more »
More likely grifter pigs like Pritzker and his family will be buying up all these properties at a fire sale like they did after 2008 after everyone goes into foreclosure or BK. Probably hotels and restaurants too. Print money, buy assets. Its a club but you aint in it.