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.
Her initial example, from Englewood, illustrates why improvements should be exempt from the real estate tax, paying based only on land value. Later, she points out that the high taxes are fundamentally due to high expenditures by local governments, and suggests folks should complain and vote to make them more economical. Which seems sensible, if the voters are.