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.
Seen it, pinched it, spent it.
Illinois political animals never change.
What happened to the funds we were taxed for to dispose of spent nuclear rods? Probably went to the same place, or diverted to left programs.
Alex, I’ll take politicians pockets for $200.
So money has been paid into a fund to deal with the problem for years but somehow the money disappeared instead of being used for what it was targeted for. Naturally while this was going on the Tribune investigated and wrote about the problem didn’t they? Sometimes I wonder who is worse the Illinois politicians or the Illinois media of which the Tribune is a major player.
Absolutely, the lack of media, particularly in Chicago, has domed the state. What happened to the funds that were supposed to pay off Soldier Field? There again, there’s never been an honest accounting.