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 oppose increasing the fees for neighborhood festivals and other events (nascar comes to mind) but there are others who need to pay “their fair share”. Have the pro-gaza groups been paying permit fees for their parades/marches? Do they reimburse the city for the cost of the police who protect them, who stand around at intersections blocking traffic?
Half of these groups protesting don’t even have permits. When denied one, they simply get on their cell phones and it’s off to the races.