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.
fun fact: roads existed before the gas tax and even before the irs. Roads even existed before the state of Illinois.
Aren’t electric bills taxed? Won’t people be using more electric if they have an electric vehicle thus more taxes? Or is this more like how do get more money for the companies that build our roads and contribute to our campaigns.