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.
There is big money (for whistleblowers) in qui tam lawsuits.
Lawsuits enable discovery (if one can find a judge willing to enforce the law).
Simply find a guilty participant in schemes to defraud IDES. Dangling big money (percentage of recovery) can buy lots of cooperation.
(Illinois is said to be a judicial hellhole, so Federal case is needed. Also, Fed is ‘holding States harmless’ so that technicality–maybe hastily enacted on purpose– can be raised by States as self-defense against being forced to comply with discovery demands).
It is the lack of transparency around critical issues such as this one that results in the erosion of trust citizens have in their government leaders. The scope of the fraud perpetrated on Illinois residents is so great people want to know was it malfeasance or gross negligence. Well JB, we’re waiting. Will you ever answer the question?