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 is not surprising. IL is basically a third world country. We have a lot of wealthy people at the top, a hollowed out middle class, and at the bottom, we have millions of illegal immigrants and poorly educated natives competing for the scraps. So of course we’re going to have great disparities.
I saw a similar study last year that had Minnesota and Iowa as the worst states. This study has them still near the bottom. Interesting that many midwestern states are at the bottom
Despite Democrat Lip Service, Illinois Is Dead Last Among The States For The Racial Equality Of Its Economy