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.
(1) Lightfoot Is Breaking Her Campaign Promise To Stop Using Traffic Cameras For Revenue, Rather Than Safety; (2) Studies Show That Speed Cameras Do Not Reduce Accidents; (3) This Is Exactly The Kind Of Predatory Ticketing That Hits Poor And Minorty Drivers The Mosts, Driving Them Into A Cycle Of Never Ending Debt; (4) Lightfoot Has Repeatedly Screwed Drivers To Grab Easy Money — Including Issuing Thousands Of Predatory Parking Tickets During The Pandemic After Promising Not To — Raising The Regressive City Gas Tax 60 Percent During The Same Pandemic — On Top Of The State’s 100 Percent Gas… Read more »