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.
The author of this article (a prolific leftist tweeter too) claims to be a PhD candidate but this article is on par with a sociology 101 class. It’s terrible. It cites no figures or data to support its underlying assertions. The arguments makes broad generalizations and has faulty underlying assumptions. Her first argument is data lag but provides no evidence that the lagging data will be any different than the existing data showing that a major bailout is unnecessary. If this is supposed to be her first, and strongest argument, she failed miserably. How does the existing data support no… Read more »
Exactly right. She makes no effort to answer her own questions. She ignores the fundamental issue that America as a whole cannot bail itself out — this is just shifting the taxation from local to federal, pretending that federal money is manna from heaven. And note the last part about bailout money unrelated to COVID. At least she he being more honest than others are on that.