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.
Here’s something that no one has brought up before since the fuel prices went ballistic. Not on a local level or state level. Time the stinking lights. Time the lights to the speed limits. On bypass 20 around Rockford the speed was lowered but the lights stayed the same so it’s nearly impossible to get two green lights in a row. At the previous 65 (now 55) you could get 3 or four lights from Belvidere to Rockford unless there are two Clara Peller’s (where’s the beef) in both lanes doing 30 in a 55 zone. Have you tried to… Read more »
Where is all this extra money going? What about all the money that was promised from the pot sales? Someone is getting rich, and the citizens of Illinois are paying the price.