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.
We need a town hall here in Rockford to discuss high property taxes. ASAP
AH taxpayers should learn from examples Rockford and Woodstock about TIF and profligate public spending for narrow benefit of a few developers-friends-of-the-regime. TIF is complicated by design. The claim that ‘TIF doesn’t raise property taxes ” is so obviously false that any moderately intelligent human cringes when we hear it spouted from complicit politicians. Are these politicians blatantly corrupt, or too stupid to even understand that they’re spewing absolute falsehoods? Which is worse? But, it requires a slight bit of effort to understand TIF, inflation, and property tax rates. Many would be glad to explain these complexities to willing listeners,… Read more »