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 new tax would be to generate revenue “to meet the city’s burgeoning public pension liabilities.” What business in Chicago would be in favor of that tax?
Once again, Chicago and IL pols are naïve to think they can continue the onslaught of new and higher taxes on businesses and residents without these entities relocating out of Chicago or IL.
“Chicago and IL pols are naïve ”
They’re not naive – they just don’t care. They don’t count on white mobile telecommuters for their votes. They count on poor and middle class minorities who refuse to leave the city for the suburbs for their votes. And laws like this don’t affect their constituency because they don’t work downtown.