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.
Has anyone seen Round Boy’s commercials touting Illinois’ change in their credit rating? Pritzker takes all the credit for that when in fact it was due to a massive infusion of Federal cash.
It gets better, crap fax covered a story that no one else did, but Congressman Raja Krishnamoorthi had a hearing the other day and basically said the resident loss figures are fake and rigged and questioned the integrity of the data. Because the ACS figures were so different from the census figures. Like any good communist, he tells his agency to revise the numbers to make his state look better. IL has no control over the ACS figure which have been reliably used for decades. IL does have control over the census figures because the state of IL helps ‘count’… Read more »
The census figures are what he should question. JB poured millions into a campaign to count every living thing in the 2020 census. In no way is it comparable to the 2010 census. These scumbags have no trouble with numbers being rigged, as long as they’re doing the rigging.