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.
I like how Illinois is used as an example of what not to do. (As well it should be)
The dems north and south will love the tax whip on their money..That is why they will vote for the new tax..They voted for fat boy be cause grandpa did.I had two tell me that they only vote dem because their family did.when in breaks and il can not go on.Call a cop for a murder in the street,no body will show up.
I’ve noticed that, too. Far too many have sat back oblivious to the fact that their party has been taken over by its most fringe elements. Classical liberalism is dead and gone, yet too few even realize it.
I’m not sure the progressive tax will pass. Last time the people voted to amend the constitution for the constitutional convention it failed miserably. Even the most bleeding heart liberals I knew thought that giving Springfield the opportunity to mess with the constitution would only make things worse. I think the progressives who drink the kool-aid, all of whom live in a bubble and read capitol fax, sure they’ll vote for it. But the rest of us, we know better. That’s why I’m not so sure it will pass.