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.
More taxes for the Chicago voters…cool!
Somebody should perform a statistical evaluation of the relationship between taxes increasing and people relocating. Obviously, there’s a positive correlation here.
Also, it seems like Chicago, by frequently increasing taxes and user fees, has a target goal for its population to be much lower than 2.9 million people. Is 29,000 the goal? No, that’s too low. How many city workers are there?
Rosemont entertainment complex, here we come!