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.
Is this the same Moody’s that gets hired directly by the Pritzker administration; gets paid hundreds of thousands of dollars each year by the state, by its public colleges and universities, and by all the state bonding authorities run by Pritzker appointees? What a coincidence that they bend a little bit to give a little space on these ratings. Can anyone spell “CONFLICT OF INTEREST”?