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.
Covid revealed some financial vulnerabilities of senior living facilities that had always been there but were ignored during a rush to open facilities and pocket profits while tax benefits and government subsidies were available. Facilities were under-staffed and employees were generally low-skilled and underpaid. One could fill up a facility almost as fast as one could fill a tank with reasonably priced petroleum products. Demographics didn’t help as aging seniors could help keep the beds full. This reminds me of other fundamentally unsustainable “benefits” (including pensions) that would eventually cost more than customers could afford to pay and than governments… Read more »