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.
Meanwhile florida is moving to full digital xbrl cafr reporting. Northern illinois univ is supposedly a hot bed for xbrl. Illinois is a digital joke. https://xbrl.us/
This is my politic—a fully digital transparent government (illinois is in the stone age) Forbes: The Four Letters Transforming The Municipal Bond Market And Government Finance.https://www.forbes.com/sites/investor/2018/12/04/the-four-letters-transforming-the-municipal-bond-market-and-government-finance/?ss=money
“But it’s also an aging workforce. As older state employees retire, they take the institutional knowledge of keeping old systems running with them.”
Collectively these aging workers also take with them enormous pensions, which is money that could otherwise be used for other things, like upgrading state computers.