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.
Oh dear, Jennifer Shea. How you carry the water for the political animals on the RTA dole. Just one thing, there is no fiscal cliff. There never was. This is egregious mismanagement turned taxpayer extortion. How clever the ploy. The Autopen-in-chief sent gobs of confiscated Federal taxpayer funds under the guise of ‘Coof Relief’ or ‘Reducing Inflation’ to the political animals infesting the RTA. Despite a 45% reduction in ridership, the RTA political animals padded the payrolls and spent all of these temporary funds every year since 2020. Meanwhile, ridership fails to materialize. Those temporary funds have now lived up… Read more »