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.
Having Illinois taxpayers subsidize the Obama Liberal Training Center helps free up money for Barack and Michelle Obama to pay $11.75 million for a seven bedroom second home on Martha’s Vineyard.
Forbes, December 8, 2019, by Kathleen Howley, Barack And Michelle Obama Close The Deal On Their Martha’s Vineyard Estate.
http://www.forbes.com/sites/kathleenhowley/2019/12/08/barack-and-michelle-obama-buy-marthas-vineyard-estate/#5c93dc573167