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.
Talk is cheap but only way is to cut spending, 10% across the board those that need make the case to take it from someone else. Eliminate townships and merge small school districts in close proximity. NOT an option mandatory merge these two school districts
Way too late, the horse is already out of the barn. Huge pension shortfall means rising taxes for many years to come. Cut pensions if you want to cut taxes and that will never happen. In fact, pensions are going up not down. If you want a cut in taxes, you have to move to another state as millions have before you.
That’s what the voters want. Stop hating on the will of the voters.
Couldn’t agree more Dan, but did anyone else listen…or care?