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 see that Oak Park’s budget is $172 million. The grocery tax would be less than 1% of that. Surely there are $1.5 mil in cuts they could make instead of adding the tax, especially being next to a food desert and knowing so many from Austin buying groceries in Oak Park. Friends there tell me that despite being in Cook County which has its own Health Dept for Oak Park residents, that Oak Park has a bloated health dept. and they have a new $100k+ DEI director (what does such a person do all day in a town so… Read more »
Replacement tax……….what’s that? A tax on illegal aliens?