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.
Anyone who has followed Capitolfax over the years knows it is largely based on info from the Illinois Dems, especially from the Madigan organization. Like any other reporter/news outlet/blog, he cut a deal with the sources he needed and they agreed to give him the “scoop” on many occasions in return for favorable treatment in his writings. Rich Miller for twenty years has had a great relationship with Madigan guys and has a lot of inside scoops. With Madigan’s legal problems the last year, and the departure of four or five of Madigan’s inner circle–who happen to be Miller’s reliable… Read more »
That’s the problem. Dead on.
Access journalists and mortgage brokers would earn their living dog walking if they didn’t have their connections.
More passive-aggressive talk from Miller. Notice how he downplays the credentials of dissenting questioners: small radio station, conservative news site, suburban paper. The guy runs a political blog that absolutely no one within my social circle has heard of, let alone read.
Miller just wants the same cabal of biased insiders asking questions: Himself, Vinicky, Sfondels, WBEZ. His little sewing circle.
I don’t even bother to read his garbage any more. But I assure you, if I ever run into this man, he will most definitely understand, very acutely, how I feel about him.