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.
The average person doesn’t realize how radical and extreme CA is, particularly with their CARB. CARB could only get their emissions laws met by forcing diesel OEMs to meet a standard that would effectively make trucks air scrubbers – that’s right, what was coming out the pipe was more acceptable than what was drawn into the air intake. The diesel truckers where being used as scrubbers. Of course the cost of this lunacy was ultimately bore by consumers. These people in CA are as radical and nutty as you can find.
I sincerely cannot wait to get out of here. Family responsibilities are the last steps.
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Thanks Mark, how much more stupidity can people in this state take.
That’s truly the ultimate question. How much more stupidity can they take? I fear we are not there yet.