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.
A wide variety of grants, loans, and bonds in various Federal, state, and local government programs involving state and Federal legislation snd local ordinances, frequently including non-profits and contractors, interspersed with DEI.
The only way to monitor all that is with a dedicated watchdog, which does not exist.
Someday the bureaucratic paperwork piled up will be taller than Jack’s beanstalk.
But Jack is now Jill and Jill is a furry.
At least Yvette Shields provides a good overview of several of the programs.