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.
This is still just scratching the surface! I used to be in real estate. The number of people claiming owner occupied is staggering. I’ve seen married couples put their names on separate properties, when they’re living together, to get the homeowner’s exemption on two properties. I even tried to bust a couple that SCAMMED over 20K this way back in 2010 and county refused to initiate an audit when presented with evidence. There is no way to enforce this stuff if the county is still running a DOS operating system and I think the penalty is civil.
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