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.
There is a huge problem that nobody is reporting: a chunk of diesel-fuel equipment–like TRUCKS and FARMERS EQUIPMENT– will be forcibly sidelined by the shortages of DEF (diesel exhaust fluid). The domestic shortages seem tied to one single factor: Union Pacific Railroad has recently drastically cut its capacity to deliver DEF. UP claims they haven’t enough rr yard workers. (Sounds like an emergency worthy of deploying National Guard). One domestic production facility supplying most DEF in America is CF Industries. Union Pacific RR is the only way to get that product out of that production facility. Why is DEF necessary… Read more »