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.
This what Gov. Newsom is cutting to reduce the deficit. What is JB doing to do the same? How many reforms have been done by Pritzker? Here the budget is getting bigger every year.
https://www.gov.ca.gov/2024/05/10/revised-state-budget-may-2024-25/
Give the King what he wants or be prepared to suffer! Pritzker is just getting his revenge from being bullied as a chubby boy. Now he’s the bulky bully, and you will pay for your insolence!
800 million? Isn’t that about the amount of the Rivan subsidies? Tell the various agencies their budgets are being cut for the sake of Rivan. That should go over good for the assorted agencies and their “must have” spending objectives.
How much of that general revenue fund is the result of inflation, rather than growth? and how much of that is the result of higher taxes since Our Lord Lardo came into the governorship? And how much does our growth lag behind our neighboring states?
Lord Lardo’s food larder needs more money to stay full. Half sides of prime beef don’t
Come cheap. The lord likes dry aged prime
Steaks but my lady prefers wet aged steaks.
It takes a large staff to keep it moving.
Me lord’s waist seems to be getting a bit bigger.