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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
Audio and summary Why the Holdup Using Artificial Intelligence to Cut Illinois Government Costs? – Wirepoints
May 19, 2026
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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.
Note to readers from Mark Glennon re: Ukraine
May 6, 2026
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Everybody needs a side hustle these days, and mine is Ukraine, where I am now.
The SALT deduction limits, along with the other Federal tax law changes did not affect the Federal adjusted gross income on which the Illinois income tax is calculated. Also, the stock market did not do all that well in 2018, so that likely doesn’t explain either why tax revenue exceeded expectations. My guess is that the Pritzker administration got a lot of pushback from its own party on reducing pension contributions, so they manufactured some pretend new revenue that gave them an excuse to back down.
Is our state so inept that they didn’t realize the limit to the SALT deduction would result in a higher AGI that we would be taxed on.