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.
Quoting my earlier missive on this sordid subject here: “Illinois…with $100 million provided to the state’s Environmental Protection Agency to build electric vehicle (EV) charging stations. Didn’t Pete Buttgag get these installed? That was his job, not that he was any good at it. He was a terrible transportation secretary, possessing no transport experience or knowledge of any kind. How many low-and-moderate-income families can afford one of these ridiculously impractical and hideously expensive glorified golf carts? Zip. Zero. Nada. This all smacks of the skim and this being another pile of money that political animals and their friends and pals… Read more »
Pete Buttgag blew through the budget getting 8 ev stations installed. These kinds of projects just take time and a whole lot more money.
We can count on Talia Soglin, DNC typist for the leftist pamphlet formerly known as The Trib, to run cover for the limitless spending by Illinois political animals. It doesn’t matter why the grant was requested, just cough up the confiscated taxpayer funds and don’t ask questions, Uncle Fed. Stenographer Soglin inadvertently left out that these grants disproportionately were approved for states that voted for the previous administration, thus why these clawbacks also disproportionately are going to these same poorly-run blue states. The grant listed “$3.6 million for the Illinois Secretary of State to conduct a research study on best… Read more »