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.
At no point did Johnson mention the increase in costs of electricity to consumers, the likely increase in residential water costs nor the plunging property values in the vicinity of a data center. Like JB, he’s all full of moonlight and canoes, but the reality is much different. IL residents of the St. Louis metro east area are up in arms over their increased costs of electricity courtesy of data centers.
Im getting a generator. With this states shaky electric grid and the dems pushing data centers, electric cars and no more gas stoves I think it maybe my best investment ever