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’ve always wondered why restaurants and retailers had to pay credit card fees on money they didn’t keep: taxes and tips. Taxes are forwarded to the taxing bodies and tips go to the worker – so the restaurant, salon or retailer ends up paying fees on money they pass through, thereby lowering their net income.
In that they are segregated on the bill I don’t believe it would be a great hardship on credit card processors to exclude those items from interchange fees.
Another known disaster but went full speed again.