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.
Clearly a partisan article. Wonder how much they got paid to say that. There is NO WAY people in IL think Jabba and his buddy Lightfoot are doing a good job.
Pritzker is the governor of a state with decreasing influence as the population shrinks. It will continue to shrink if he remains governor.
This reporter neglected the one and only reason that the Illinois governorship is not vulnerable to change- the public employee unions are firmly in control of the state.
What? Fire the staffer that did this research. Did a good job of handling the pandemic? What about the $80 million spent on converting McCormick Place to a hospital that was never used? How about killing the convention, hotel and restaurant businesses by keeping them locked up months and months longer than necessary? How about ignoring the largest pension fund calamity in US history? How about letting Chicago’s crime eruption spiral even more out of control? How about can’t even get the IDES offices open after 16 months? How about having one of the largest thefts of Covid benefits in… Read more »