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.
These data centers are like when China took the world’s old computers because no decent country wanted them. No decent states want data centers .
I noticed how wealthy suburbs kept these out. These data centers will be put in less affluent neighborhoods. Seems like affluent liberal neighborhoods subscribe to “not in my neighborhood”.
Not mentioned in the article is the moratorium on data centers currently in place in Denver and DeKalb County ( Atlanta ) over health concerns being explored currently in the Senate. JB apparently has no such concerns, his tooting his own horn for the well being of “ his people “ aside .
Something does not add up. If we have the flat land, the water and 11 nukes, it would seem that data specter owners would naturally want to set up shop here. We have the best natural setup and the most nukes in the country. Why do our politicians need to cut the data center owners all these tax deals? Are the Democrats who totally control this state getting rich from this, and winking while our electricity costs and property taxes soar?
Unless the build a nuclear reactor next to it and pay all taxes, that’s a no.