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.
After all these years the Chicago Tribune finally sees the light on gerrymandering! Hmmm, it’s too late to change the lopsided demographics these maps have created in this state. The media, including the Tribune, are responsible for it.
Lately, it is rare that I agree with the Tribune on anything, but they nailed this one. Too bad nothing will come of it.The Trib might as well have suggested that organized crime disband (which is basically what this editorial does).
So maybe it’s not the voters’ fault and what the voters want? Another talking point bites the dust.