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.
Pretty amazing how are great governor had a speech all set and ready to read to all The people of Illinois the minute he found out about bailey’s lawsuit against him. Again, recall this governor now.
Illinois is known to never have a budget.
Jabba wouldn’t know a balanced budget if it screamed at him.
I literally just watched Jabba, moments ago, say that “unlike [President] Donald Trump”, IL had a balanced budget this year, and was actually expecting a surplus, *but for* coronavirus! What a liar! As of this morning, Susan Mendoza says that the state owe in backlogged bills: $7,457,616,659.54! How in the world can the state have a balanced budget when it owes $7.5B in past due bills? WHAT A LIAR! I shut off the news conference because I can’t listen to these lies. And he had to get the superfluous and unnecessary Trump bashing in there. This man is embarrassing himself,… Read more »