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.
The information sector is the only bright spot. In a state where 70% of kids graduate lacking proficiency in reading and math.
The school system has been mass producing its own competitors for public funds for years. Apparently that wasn’t crazy enough. We needed to import thousands more.
But they couldn’t stop doing that, you see. Because somebody would be mean to them or something.