Saving 22 million dollars is a drop in the bucket of the nearly 20 trillion dollars that the USA is in debt (Source: www.usdebtclock.org). The Federal Reserve and their secret shareholders are the ones who actually rule the monetary system.

The GDP of the USA (according to worldbank.org) was 18.6 trillion dollars in 2016. Effectively this means that if all the economic drive of the USA was put into paying off debt for one year (think of any purchase anyone makes going directly to taxes, and 100% of all paychecks going directly to taxes too), then the debt would still not be paid because of the Federal Reserve and unscrupulous politicians. Obviously, this is impossible to do, which is a good thing because the ramifications of putting such a policy into practice would be disastrous.

Real estate taxes would increase overall, but the recent news (especially for Illinois) is that the state can't pass a budget, and therefore can't pay anybody any money.

As for unemployment, shadowstats.com has disagreements with the official numbers, which can indicate why wages aren't rising. For instance, if one had to take on 2 minimum wage full time jobs in order to pay the bills, would that be counted as 200% employment? If so, then you can have one unemployed person for every person who has 2 jobs, and end up at 0% unemployment.