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.
Blm, pot head dope dealers, and the permanent victim class gets another freebie courtesy of the losers in Springfield.
What a genius. What could go wrong? Ever hear of Tulip Mania? The government has no authority to ban plants, but there would be more money to be made by controlling and taxing tomatoes. If you grow your own tomatoes, you are depriving the state of their share of taxes. Our government officials smoke too much loco weed, the only solution they know is more taxes and control. We could train youth for productivity, trades and jobs.
This is the future of Illinois? To have a greater population than ever get high on ever increasing amounts of THC in the product? All for tax revenue, which no matter how much will not put a dent in the enormous debt? This is not a comment on decriminalization, but rather a point of view over the State’s role in pushing an psycho-active drug (the users are into it to get high, and not for the CBD).
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