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.
Is Madigan era over? What a dumb question. It isn’t “Madigan era”. Its the Democrat machine. Madigan just happened to be the most recent corrupt Democrat at the head of the crime syndicate. The criminal enterprise between Democrat politicians and public sector labor unions like AFSCME, SEIU, CTU and IFT is still going strong. Crush the unions and start sending the union memebers to prison alongside their political puppets and then you end the Democrat machine.
I love that response. These insider contributions are warranted because there has never been a black candidate elected from that district. Oh. OK. Sleazeball insider pressure is ok if you are fighting racism? Huh?
Welch says “that area has never elected a Black person or a woman to the bench”.
What he doesn’t mention is that her opponent is also a qualified black woman- Chloe Pederson.