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.
IL is just behind NY for another #1 rating in the country for a horrible category: largest per capita wealth migration. Give us another six months, but I don’t know if our trophy room has any space left for another trophy.
Stop and think about this sports fans, look at your
property taxes and multiply them by 3 to 5
years. You have enough for a new car.
you are giving these idiots your new car
every 3 to 5 years.
when do you have enough to force a change?
The streets of Florida are paved with Gold and Bikinis. Sunny clean air and lots of beautiful people and low taxes. If you are from Illinois keep it to yourself, otherwise people will laugh at you because of where you lived. The whole country knows that Illinois is the most F—ed Up state in the country. Money is voting with their feet. My guess is Ted and Mark will both move out of Illinois one day.
Count me as happy enough living in IL. I don’t think living in the southern third of FL where the temperature beyond mid-morning is almost always disagreeably hot even in winter is my idea of Shangri-La. “Your mileage may vary,” of course.
Florida is great until you go through a hurricane. I decided to sell and move after Ian a few years ago. Realtor said we are called halfbacks because we move halfway back home. In my case I landed in far southern TN but spend more time in Huntsville since that’s the nearest Costco etc.
Yeah, that’s not much of a choice. Live in the highest-taxed state in the country or live in a state where there are so many hurricanes the insurance companies won’t insure your home.