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.
Pullman’s residents today have about as much in common with yesteryear’s steel workers as the Turks have in common with the Byzantines. So basically, none at all. Comparing the two are like comparing apples and oranges. The original residents of Pullman (the neighborhood is very, very old) are all dead, or have moved on, and new residents have moved in over the years. Lamenting over lost jobs two generations ago for former community residents is literally a waste of electrons, and I want my 5 minutes back I spent reading that article.