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.
Bag tax increase is in the bag! There, I fixed the headline.
Gosh, I’ve got a face for radio. Could I write copy for WBBM?
Wow. We really are living in a world class city aren’t we. Let’s debate a penny– no two cents– on paper bags. That will solve our multi-billion dollar budget/pension problems. We are really making big plans in this city with a historically great bunch of civic leaders.
We live in a state full of greedy lifer politicians that can’t see beyond their paychecks, pensions, benefits and favors owed to people that put them there. IL is openly and proudly the most corrupt state in the union.