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.
Illinois has only 5 Republicans for 18 seats in the House in Representatives. We send 13 of our 18 seats in the House as Democrats. That’s 28% of the seats that are Republican, and 72% that are Democrat. Yet consistently in every statewide election, republicans achieved 37% of the vote (Rauner 2018) to over 50% of the vote (Rauner 2014). But only 28% of our representatives are Republicans. Why does no one, yes no one, ever talk about this gerrymandering? I’ve seen a million articles about WI gerrymandering, and NC too, and PA, which all favored Republicans, often by slim… Read more »
As expected. Kudos to reps Peterson (MN) and Van Drew (NJ) for choosing their country over a partisan witch hunt.