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.
It’s interesting reading peoples comments about how Ted won’t be able to do anything because of Democrat control. That really shouldn’t be the guide as to whether he will be successful. Someone that actually “stops digging” would be a massive improvement and a very realistic goal for any newly elected Illinois Governor. Also, everyone should ask themselves, who do you want running the state when Chicago eventually is forced to face their fiscal music? Someone who will provide tough love and force drastic cuts or someone from the same political team? Rauner tried to force change without having any cards.… Read more »
While everything you said is true, 2026 may be a tough year for a republican candidate in a blue state. But I support what Ted stands for and it’s important to vote for him even if you think the odds are not in his favor of changing Illinois in the way it needs to change.
I’m voting for Ted. However I fully expect my downstate vote for Ted will be canceled out by an illegal alien in Chicago.
Rauner knew what the fiscal problems were and how to turn those around, unfortunately he lacked the ability to work with the democrats to find even incremental change much less fundamental fixes. Ted surely has the brains and may have the personality and disposition for that but he would still face the Democrat/public union industrial complex, which will never let him implement 401ks rather than pensions for future employees. Hard to see a Berlin Wall coming down shift in IL.
I can’t wait for others, the Dems in particular because it’s their MO, to piggyback on Ted’s ideas and promptly claim them as their own. “ I was gonna say that!” is a common rejoinder these days.
He has a better chance of getting hit by a meteorite than fixing Illinois. Illinois is run by the public sector, and it enjoys the best of the best all paid for by the taxpayers. Nothing going to change, NOTHING.
A Republican that wants to change things stands very little chance of being elected and if elected an even small chance of changing the fat pensions. Illinois is on the express lane of financial disaster.
Mr. Dabrowski obviously knows how to fix Illinois. This is not even up for debate. Can he fix it? Sure. It’s all about incentives. Present the solutions to the people AND at the same time, invite the Feds in to audit and scrutinize ALL of the Illinois government’s books and all of the financial transactions of the fat cat members of the Combine. Remember, there’s a thousand Illinois politicians who could never survive an IRS audit. So audit them and send the crooks to Madigan’s Motel 6 in beautiful West Virginia. Such a plan would become a nationwide model for… Read more »
Nice job on the interview, IMO. Asked the right questions and it presents a fair look at Dabrowski.