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.
The title is a little misleading – it refers more to how Chicago has become a nothing burger. Chicago has crime and high taxes and political views wrapped up into everything from plastic shopping bags to yard signs of many colors. Texas might have high property taxes but they don’t have the subzero temps and people in your face telling you what you should think on a daily basis. Most importantly they don’t have the CTU that is so financially illiterate they can’t seem to grasp the state has no money. There are so many intelligent people in this state… Read more »
It’s a nothing burger. Except why make the move?