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.
Sustainable aviation fuel is another fiasco. I happen to have been looking at it over the past month because it’s another subsidy under the Inflation Reduction Act. The costs are absurd — many times the cost of regular fuel.
Yep, but that likely won’t stop the Fat Man from blowing millions of tax dollars on it, government does not listen to their constituents, only to their donors. With the current government, there doesn’t seem to be any connection to simple common sense, pride in your word or responsibility anymore.