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.
… but the IL gas tax is at the right level
That’s precisely why Governor WIDE-LOAD ripped the toilets out of one of his spare mansions. Because property taxes are too high. No toilets means lower taxes.
JB should be encouraging Chicago or maybe they can just do CPS to file bankruptcy and clean up this union insanity that’s destroying the city (destroying the state too)
Gee, thanks a lot Governor. That’s really helpful to the taxpayers of Chicago. Good idea- let’s just find some “efficiencies”. I am sure there are hundreds of millions of dollars worth just laying around for the Mayor’s crack staff to reveal. Any idea for some legislation dealing with closing some schools, holds on state distributions– anything? Nah.