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.
“[Pritzker] says Plainfield Republican Rep. Mark Batinick made a persuasive argument to him about imposing a mandate.”
Nonsense, he was always going to impose a mask mandate just as every other blue state has a mask mandate. No Republican convinced him to do that. This is a political hit job to make Batinick look bad to his constituency… And the studies shows that masks are mostly ineffective and the burden of wearing them outweighs any possible benefit.