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.
“Illinois represents a true test of what presidential candidates will face across the nation,” U.S. Rep. Robin Kelly (D-Chicago), the chair of the Democratic Party of Illinois, wrote to Democratic National Committee Chair Jaime Harrison.” IL politicians are getting high on their own supply if they think that IL voters are going to choose the Republican presidential candidates in the primaries. National Republicans aren’t going to sit back idly and say “oh boy, IL has the first primary, let’s go campaign there!” Republicans will simply ignore the IL entirely and instead focus on a later primary in some other state… Read more »