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.
If any are illegals, Mayor Banjo has a bed for you
It’s bad enough that Illinois does everything it can to drive out businesses and productive citizens, but another issue is that downstate Illinois is dreary and declining and just generally sucks…
Add in that the counties largest city, Springfield is rife with crime ( both inside and outside the capital dome) , a high unemployment rate and many welfare recipients. As with CHI, Decatur, Peoria and other blue oaises, who wants to live there that doesn’t have to? The tumble in population in Joliet is a prime example as most new arrivals there don’t want to be counted and avoid being so.
Illinois has been losing population every year for a while, looks like it will continue as taxes keep going higher and business keep leaving. There is no stopping tax increase with the current pension debt as it is, they must go much higher to survive.