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.
Even better would be to stop Illinois practice of hitting drivers with state/county/local gas taxes and sales taxes on top of all that — TAXING THE TAXES
https://www.illinoispolicy.org/high-gas-prices-mean-illinois-sales-tax-adds-200-a-year/
What happened to the concept of no double taxation? And you’re correct, paying sales tax on taxes is absurd.
$”.40 cents a gallon cheaper in Beloit, Wi compared to prices in Illinois. Shopping, no or less tax, alcohol, no additional tax. Shotgun shells for pheasant hunt, no FOID required.
No toll roads…..