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 last thing Chicago needs is more socialist nonsense like hiking taxes when they are already too high
Raising taxes is like pouring gas on a fire.
Johnson is the trained poodle of Crooked Corrupt Cook County Democrat Boss Toni Preckwinkle — First thing he will push is the tax on soda — the tax that Cook County was forced to repeal — after suburban voter backlash
https://www.illinoispolicy.org/taxpayer-victory-cook-county-soda-tax-repealed/