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.
Illinois voters are all for more feel good spending but are so surprised when they find out it costs more in taxes…except the free stuff army that is.
Ralph goes to great lengths to describe what a sow’s ear BJ’s sow’s ear financial decisions have been, concluding that it’ll all be a silk purse with more taxes for more of the same stuff that doesn’t work.
Even ‘regressive’ taxes – Ralph, of course, never having met a tax that he didn’t want to take home with him after dinner-n-drinks.