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.
A lot of law grads find practicing law as a woke lawyer to be too difficult and they ultimately pursue other things. There’s no ‘woke’ in a corporate real estate transaction, no systemic racism to crush in a bond issuance, no white privilege defending an orthopedic accused of malpractice. And when a social justice issue arises, even tangentially to the case, there’s always another side, often equally or more compelling. Few woke lawyers want to live outside of big cities, fearful of living among white Trump voting racists. Rural areas, and even some suburban and exurban areas, have difficulties attracting… Read more »