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.
Illinois had 92,800 EVs registered in 2022 and 125,500 in 2024 for an increase of 16,000 vehicles per year. With the IL population of 12.7 million, and registered vehicles of 11 mllion, it hardly seems justifiable to continue to spend taxpayer money for something that benefits .1 percent of the state’s population. It is disappointing that the state continues to spend millions on benefits for vehicles that have been too expensive for many residents to purchase, but that is the game of keeping your grifters happy. It would have been great to sink that money into true infrastructure, tax reform… Read more »
The EV industry is slowly falling apart. Manufacturers going out of business, shutting down productions, cancelling new models so the solution is to pour more money into the EV scam to prop up these businesses. Charging stations near my home, 8 of them, are hardly used. Drive by all the time and you would be lucky to see a vehicle. Using them. COVID scam, climate change scam, global warming scam, EV scam.
I live in a downstate liberal utopia that is rock solid as blue as it comes. Surprisingly the charging places here are pretty much empty meaning to me no one wants these vehicles including the usual bleeding hearts about climate warming. Who would have thought?
Kwame’s gonna lose another one.
Since the market for impractical electric golf carts has dried up along with any impetus for sticking taxpayers with the bill to install outlets and extension cords for them, JB the Hutt can personally finance these superfluous charging stations. $130 million is chump change to a billionaire trust fund brat like The Hutt.
Neither state or federal government should be putting tax dollars into charging stations. Just another way to launder tax payer dollars into the pockets of the connected and corrupt. Maybe com ed and other distributors/ producers should construct stations to sell their product .