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.
Quite a win win for the Illinois Democrats here. Not only will they get the unions behind them but shutting down the coal plants will create permanent job losses at the coal fired plants and for the southern Illinois miners as well making two new classes of individuals that will be dependant on welfare to live. Who would have thought 20 yerars ago it would come to this?
All this bill is about the unions and the unions only, the ratepayers get screwed again at the hands of the politicians in bed with there union buddies. If you can times up in Illinois leave.
Anyone had enough of the Supermajority Democrats yet? A moron could run these plants better.
Well this solves everything! Until ConEd comes back in five years with more extortion demands and Illinois caves in again. My advice is for anyone that can, they should try not to be in Illinois in five years.
So we get to pay 700 million, to keep two nuclear power plants running, which in return we get to buy electric from. Did we just do this in 2016? for 200 million. Wow why can not just buy the power plants ? And give the electricity away for free ?How much are we to pay for windmills and solar panels and not own them? No pill to fix stupid I guess.
It’s not stupid. It’s calculated to benefit their cronies. Once again the people pay. Only so much one can handle in this state.
Whooo Whoo! We’re gonna be carbon free! What a jag load! I don’t mind keeping power plants open, nor do you! Hey Porky just lay it on the line! We can take bad news if it’s sensible.