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.
Sounds like the new, progressive slate has to play by the same ( petty ) rules as everyone else does and doesn’t care for it. I wouldn’t count on being a write in candidate, as doing so and getting the name right is just too much to ask of some folks.
Things like this have and will be coming across the State as municipalities sell off their utility infrastructure to pay the pensions. The plants’ hiring practices became imbedded with nepotism and cronyism to where salaries were more important than infrastructure maintenance and required upgrades. Now, by selling the plants, the private companies’ complete the necessary upgrades sparing the politicians that caused the problems being blamed for the increased rates. Two operations near me downstate recently took this route and others have been listed here at Wirepoints in the past. This will probably be a new norm in Illinois as politicians… Read more »