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.
Rockford’s sky high property tax’s are mostly to blame and the building going on are hospitals-schools and mostly non taxable projects which do not add to the total EAV to lower tax’s. There are a few homes and duplexes being built. There is a new hotel downtown being built but has lots of tax incentives. I just drove to Beloit by I 90 and 43 and the building going on is incredible. Amazon has a huge building going up and the $400M casino will probably start soon plus the roads and bridges are being rebuilt plus tax’s are much lower… Read more »
Not so surprising when there are mayors and governors running states into the ground.
A lack of federal aid is to blame?? Not the incompetence and stupidity of elected officials who make promises that defy the laws of math and render their jurisdictions virtually uninhabitable?