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.
This seems to me as if society as a whole is deciding to kick the can down the road. (It could also be politicians trying to stay in office.) Many of us have developed a faith that everyone has a right to $50K or so per year and politicians will have their backs with minimum wage laws and unemployment benefits funded by deficit spending. Those who are able to stay in business will then raise their prices. Who knows if society will collapse when we can no longer eat artichokes and oysters or drive Audis? Perhaps the improved middle class… Read more »