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.
State data at https://dph.illinois.gov/covid19/data/hospitalization-utilization.html says Illinois hospitals have 31,754 total beds, of which 3,783 (or maybe fewer, as the data be inconsistent) are occupied by Covid patients. There are 5400 beds “open.” The same site shows that most ICU beds are occupied by non-Covid patients, and 9% are “open.” Assuming that we can trust these statistics, there certainly could be localized difficulties as reported by the article, but it seems overall there’s plenty of capacity.
I did not see any statistics about what proportion of patients are vaxxd.