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.
As with education standards, moving the goalposts to benefit more of the underserved is one of the many tools in the progressives bag of tricks.
Leave it to Illinois political animals to try and undo work requirements for freebies.
Illinois elects its dumbest.
At first I thought that meant that making 200,000 or less would now make you low income.