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.
In Illinois “infrastructure” spending is a ruse, the money Will largely go to lawyers starting 20 year environmental studies and inefficient prevailing wage union waste. For every 1 mile of road Illinois can build, other states can build 15 miles. The Joliet I80 bridge will collapse in the middle of a 20 year environmental suit on how to fix it.
This one move will add another $10,000 plus per taxpaying person and company in Illinois. Plus interest. Plus a new shortfall in 2019 for Chicago, Cook, and Illinois. Plus thousands of small units of government new deficits for education, pensions, etc. The debt spiral is really in motion in Illinois.