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.
In Illinois, read the fine print. Public Act 101-32…amends the County Motor Fuel Tax Law, 55 ILCS 5/5-1035.1: 1) “increasing the initial maximum tax rate that can be imposed from four cents per gallon to eight cents per gallon and that the rate may not be less than four cents per gallon.” So Will County has the freedom to enact the tax BUT the state set an arbitrary floor as to impede competition between the counties. I’m sure Cook County is dying for the collar counties to raise their rates so they can also raise their 6 cent rate. 2)… Read more »
This is what happens when orange man bad and the county goes blue. Sad place out there in Will County.