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.
I can make money in Chicago and live here and pay rediculous taxes or make money in Chicago while living in FL and pay no state income tax. Guess which one we picked. This is our familie’s FU to the Democrat cabal.
The significant factor is young people going away to college, seeing how more efficiently other states are run, and not returning to IL. Meantime, those who remain are getting older, a bigger drain on resources, and with no tax on retirement income, they stay. Much less income for state and local.
Let’s not forget the violence and incredibly mindless progressive woke policies of King Pritzker and Lightweight.