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.
I recall that during the pandemic (JBs) daily press briefings when the first financial aid package was passed, President Trump called out Illinois/Pritzker for how out of date the Department of Employment Services was and offered federal government assistance to work out the problems to get money to people without problems. JB’s response was to use federal aid money to hire 3 consulting firms to rescue IDES. The rollout was terrible, the system is still not working well, fraud and debt. JBs lack of leadership.