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.
A quarter of every dollar of tax from legal weed will slosh around, going mostly to politically-connected “non-government” (laughs sardonically) organizations run by friends, family and campaign contributors of (mostly democratic) politicians.
It’s a slush fund.
Weed TIF.