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.
“Humu Issifu’s 5-year-old daughter is interested in taking swimming lessons and dance classes. Issifu says if she had extra money, she’d enroll her in recreational activities. ” So basically, Humu would immediately spend that extra few dollars on dance classes, instead of saving it for a rainy day to get out of poverty, and next year at this time, when Humu is again broke, Humu will again look to the government for a few extra dollars to spend, maybe next time on playstation games or a trip to the wisconsin dells. Lovely. These transfer payments never seem to take anyone… Read more »