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.
Even if the Dems sweep all the top elections in Illinois next week, there will be one positive result. On a national basis Progressives will get routed. Pritzker fancies himself as a leading progressive. In another week he can kiss his national ambitions good-bye. The only reason Biden won the Democrat nomination in 2020 was that all the Progressives in the primaries got embarrassingly low totals. After Tuesday voters’ nationwide disdain for the Progressives will be obvious, and Pritzker is toast outside of the Illinois bubble he lives in.
My best guess is that he’ll win by less than 100,000 – 150,000 late reported votes, maybe not even reported until the next morning. They’re still counting in cook county late into the night! That’s a relatively small margin. This small margin may curb his ambitions when he realizes that he doesn’t have half the state and almost as many people voted against them. Then again, the communist does not care, and he may double down.
Bingo. Pritzker chose a strategy of being the most aggressive defender of Biden and progressive policies in Washington, as shown in his Miami and New Hampshire speeches. Big mistake.