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.
“… could … generate up to $50 million in annual property tax revenue.”
How much will it generate in tax subsidies from us?
So, what are the data centers going to be doing? AI…uh huh…ok, well that’s a giant subject. They can also be used by bad people to eliminate privacy to store, gather and analyze tons of information about citizens, images, video, movement of people, buying habits, bank accounts and to provide information to control movement, spending, product availability, etc. and why do we need one in every county? I know, I know…just nutball conspiracy theories…but this is extraordinary technology is coming at us pretty fast with few controls and could be used to manipulate and control the population. I wouldn’t put… Read more »
When my property taxes go down notably is when I will believe the buffoon we call our governor. It is not within his wheelhouse to master economics of a state. He needs to go.
One very important question, how about power
for this project. The grid is stressed now,
will Pritzker wave his magic toilet bowl
wand and make electrons appear?