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.
Power plants use tremendous amounts of groundwater. The cost to the project for this water is zero.
Affected properties in surrounding cone of depression will need to pay for more powerful pumps and/or deeper wells.
Powerplants target deeper aquifers with”sweet’ water, but can contain high concentration of radon brought up and disbursed.
Suggest Manteno residents lawyer up quick to fight this one.
Gotion is the best thing that has ever happened to the area. Long term good jobs in a dying state is a good thing. Most every other company is leaving Illinois.
The same people who are against Gotion will be working there or will have family members working there. The ones who do not will have minimum wage jobs at the local Walmart selling Chinese made goods.
You get points at least for consistency. That’s consistent with your view that everybody should leave.