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.
“Federal tax changes from 2017 could make it more politically difficult for local governments to raise taxes, according to a report.”
I know my school district is up to the difficult challenge! They’ll find a way to raise my taxes!
The other side of this is that many states reaped huge windfall revenue gains from the 2017 tax legislation. Many, many fewer folks will itemize deductions on their federal returns, and they will owe more on their state returns because most states only allow you to itemize if you also do so on your federal return. Fewer deductions combined with unchanged state tax rates means more revenue for the states. Here in Virginia, the state revenue increase is over $1 billion annually, and the New Democratic legislature is wasting no time spending all of it, thank you very much.