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.
Not nearly high enough to cover the Pension Time Bomb. Doubling taxes for years to come. Billions of dollars in debt to the free loaders.
Woodstock Illinois residents (median household income/median priced homes) pay over 10% of income in property taxes alone. Woodstock property tax rate is 3.6% of full fair market home value. Illinois discrete regions’ property tax rates are highest in nation individually. Illinois property tax rate being second to New Jersey is only due to averaging high tax rate regions (all collar counties, most of Illinois outside Chicago) with Chicago’s relatively lower rates. TIF coverage of most Illinois municipalities ensure that property tax rates can only rise, as TIF properties create massive new social service cost burden which is, by law, to… Read more »
Susan,
My property tax rate in CO is 0.6%.
Maybe time to move west?!
Da Judge