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.
BJ is trotting out to the field for that long, game-winning can-kick.
Who’da thunk, you can bet every city departments along with CTU/Brandon wants ZERO CUTS to even ONE city worker hired with what was supposed to be one time ARPA-COVID $billions$. Getting dopey city/state taxpayers to pick up the now spent ARPA-COVID $billions$ tab si all that counts going forward.