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.
Illinois is a state that screws poor and working class people on taxes. $7,000 tax bills for 1,200 sq ft homes. One of the highest gas taxes in the nation, same for sales tax, vice and sin taxes, expensive tolls, nickel and dime you on fees. The bottom 60% either scrimps and saves and lives like paupers, or they fill the gap between income and expenses with credit cards. Most poor and working class people choose to fill the gaps with credit cards and file bankruptcy every 10-15 years instead because it’s difficult to pinch pennies forever, when everything is… Read more »
Again ,don’t throw out the number 1 foam finger as Illinois tries to sweep the everything that is wrong with state government categories
Nonsense. Chicagoans love being perpetual losers. They wallow in their status as slaves and abused persons. It’s not distress when the people so “distressed” love it and will live no other way.
Really no surprise. They may pay the taxes in cash, but then they charge other needs with a credit card. In essence they are charging the taxes increases on their credit cards. They rob Peter to pay Paul.