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.
Meanwhile, NITA bleeds more ridership every month.
Ridership peaked in 2012 and has plummeted ever since. Therefore, the political animals have decreed that folks in Cairo, IL, needed to pony up for more transit boondoggles.