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.
If Six Percent’s folks don’t get theirs, he’s gonna holla. Interestingly, Joliet just pulled a major flip flop on their stance over a third pot dispensary. Even though soundly defeated by the planning commission, the city council, notably the resident Latino socialist, touted it as good business because, as he put it “ When people get high, they will spend money on food at surrounding restaurants!”. You couldn’t make this stuff up in your wildest dreams.