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.
In a place where local government was fair and efficient, the remedy would be to increase the homeowner exemption. This would proportionally benefit low-income people more than the affluent. Unfortunately, as documented in Wirepoints and elsewhere, local government here is costly, wasteful, and inefficient, so that remedy is not available.
Since the lawsuit they lost might be a good option to just walk away from your home and let them, now required, to pay you the equity.