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.
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1 .If these guys are starting at $180K per year, what the heck is the tollway director making?
2. Add this quote to the long list of clueless or understated quotes from IL pols: “It seems excessive.” These pols are so insightful.
With $45 billion to spend, the patronage free for all trough feed is already no!!! Yee-ha!!
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It takes a lot of $1.00 tolls on an ipass to pay these government workers $186,000 a year, plus benefits. Seems excessive to me. Are there any jobs in the private sector that would pay these people $180,000 a year? Doubtful.
But if tolls are doubled it’ll be easier to pay their salaries! With taxes going up the tollway workers will need raises