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.
This column is spot on. So many of our leaders are just fundamentally stupid. Same for General Assembly. One exception I would make is Preckwinkle. She is smart (in a devious and wrong-headed way, of course). That’s what makes her the center of Cook County’s problems.
Wire points should start a Dunce of The Month Club. Find a misspent federal money and who authorized it!
In Chicago/Illinois just call it Dem Dunce of the Month Club!!