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.
Where are most of those tax dollars going? To the local school districts which continue to have larger and larger budgets every year with declining enrollment. There are close to 11 separate school districts within a short distance of Homewood. Flossmoor/Hazel Crest/Thornton/Brookwood/Prairie Hills/Bremen/Harvey/Bloom/Brookwood to name a few. Is consolidation ever discussed? Each has their own super and supporting staff. All top heavy in administration. Many are already taxed there into oblivion thanks to Ptell which is in Cook County but not Chicago. https://tax.illinois.gov/content/dam/soi/en/web/tax/localgovernments/property/documents/ptellcounties.pdf
Average Illinois property tax rate – 2.25%
My property tax rate in CO – 0.6%
Stay in Taxistan and keep paying up for public sector union simpletons!!
I voted with my feet over 20 years ago and have an extra $200K in my bank account.
Da Judge
Pay up, Suckas!