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.
I’m sure Kwame has this on the top of his list.
Ashby’s state pension amounted to $87,528 last year, according to the BGA, whose site crashed before I could figure out whether he also gets something from a county.
Springfield you are done for
Fat fingered it on this one omg how can you people allow this to happen and continue
You people = Democrats, all Democrats, everyone of them. Whenever you read or hear someone complain about Republicans, tell them to first look in the mirror at their own degenerate party.
Why are they “done for?” Illinois voters have shown that they couldn’t care less about corruption and fixing the ways of their esteemed leaders.
All that matters to most of them is that they have a “D” after their name, and that’s where their loyalties reside.
No amount of corruption — revealed and not revealed — will end the Democrat party control of our state. The Democrats have nothing to fear, as this too, will pass.