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.
What does it say about Illinois when even the population of Michigan has grown over the last decade? JB can deny it as much as he wants, but he is steering a sinking ship. He isn’t interested in doing what is necessary, and continues to try his jedi mind tricks on his constituents, trying to convince them that all is well. He has no plan.
The Illinois ship of state hit the iceberg years ago and has been steering in circles to avoid going under.. The hole in the side is getting ripped open wider and greater amounts of seawater are entering the hull. All the while the ship is slowing. People have saved themselves by launching the available life boats and life rafts and made it to the safety of other states. Those that have remained on the deck watching will soon realize that there are no life boats left as they go down with the ship when it soon founders..