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.
How can Illinois cut taxes when it has the assorted debts that it owes and has considerable new spending issues such as the migrant situation? Fill me in because I would like to know.
How does Illinois raise taxes enough to cover all the people with their hand out, without creating a stampede to the exits?
Fill us in, because I’m sure JB Pritzker, Kathy Hochul and Gavin Newsome would love to hear the answer.
Doesn’t this tax to the the local village/town/city? So the local authority need to cut expenses ( not happening) or raise funds through additional/new fees/taxes.
Correct doctor. But now those local government officials in red areas will have to cut expenses or raise taxes and upset their local voters. Makes it harder to just blame democrats.
JB knows how much a Happy Meal costs at McDonalds.
Can’t get anything by him, he knows what his people want.
Of course it does…….this guy could care less about legal citizens……go away JP