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.
No surprises here. Everyone knows people are fleeing the highest taxes in the nation and still have some of the lowest services and high crime rates.
Where’s RAJA to call the Census Bureau a bunch of liars?? The day in my life is coming, sooner rather than later, when I will leave my home in Cook County for somewhere cheaper, more rural and less like living in a United Nations suburban dystopia, where I’m the only native English speaker at the local Wal-Mart. If you had asked me several years ago, I’d probably move somewhere within Illinois -I’ve lived here my whole life, I’m familiar with it, and so on. But now? I’m headed over the border, either south to KY or IN or north to… Read more »
Somewhere on Table Rock Lake in MO for me. Still family here to take care of in the meantime.
Don’t wait too long so as to minimize the losses you’ll take when you do sell.
More carnival barkers, I presume?