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.
No mention in that article about changing the assessment system itself. If I can’t be certain that my taxes won’t double over the course of 1 year, I have to automatically assume they will given the financial state of IL. Those who own will always be forced to pay whatever they tell you to pay — appeals are no guarantee. And if you don’t you lose your home. It’s like paying off the mafia for “protection”.
All that will happen is that R suburbs (NW/SW) will get less money and D suburbs (Everywhere else) will share in the spoils of stealing it from the R suburbs. No thank you.