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.
Crains looking more like a Dem shill everyday.
Meanwhile, just across the border in Indiana with 1/2 the population of Illinois, they just recently announced $11 bil Amazon data center campus in South Bend, $2 bil Google data center in Fort Wayne, $3.9 bil chip plant in Lafayette, etc, etc, EV plants going up left and right and on and on. And who know what Indiana is subsidizing with taxpayer $ for any of theses deals if anything compared to Illinois? Also, I believe Indiana has as many manufacturing jobs as Illinois with 1/2 the population. I’m sure it’s a similar story in Wisconsin and other neighboring states.… Read more »
Who was the idiot who commented recently here that Crain’s board seemed to be improving? Wait, that was me. Sorry.