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.
Folk, this blurb is chock of reasons to stack.
Totally misleading headline and story. All it is saying is that SNAP payments are due and that the MAXIMUM POSSIBLE benefits — which not everyone gets — are x dollars. The $2,113 payment would be for a SNAP eligible household of 10 people. For 1 person the max is $211 and not everyone will get that. Some, perhaps many, get the minimum possible monthly payment, which is $95.
Says right there “worth up to”. What’s the misleading part?
The misleading part is the implication that this is a newsworthy one-time windfall that all SNAP recipients will or potentially could receive this month, when it’s merely a reflection of the normal SNAP allotment, and the amount quoted is a maximum that only a fraction of SNAP recipients (those in households of 10 or more people) could receive.