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.
This reminds of me rearranging the deck chairs on the Titanic as it is sinking. While I definitely agree that all of the metro area should have decent public transit access, i’m not sure that it is completely necessary. Not everyone wants to work downtown. It’s expensive to work downtown. The rest of the suburbs don’t have the density to support a robust public transit network. I have a PACE bus that stops a few houses down from my home and the bus is nearly empty even during rush hour.