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 don’t care if mostly Democrat voter millionaires are taxed at a higher rate. If that’s what Democrats want, let them have it. Democrat millionaires are not looking out for me, and more often than not, they hate me, they hate my values and they actively try to harm me, either as an individual or part of a larger group of deplorables. If the professional class pays more tax, so be it.
Let’s call this bill the “drive small businesses out of Illinois” bill. There, I fixed the “millionaire tax” caption.
Good. Do it. You don’t need those businesses and rich people anyway. Your neighboring states thank you.