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.
Fixed? They need to be in jail. “Just above junk” is a wonderful place to be, it sells. Doesn’t matter if you have that rating by screwing over all the residents, confiscated their home values, got the legislators to put your investors first in line, or coloured and shaped the very thing you are supposed to be objectively rating, or how many lunches you had with the governor. Raters are not raters in Illinois, they are more like Ponzi operators.