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.
I pass three completely or partially torn down office buildings on my commute, and half a dozen or more nearly vacant ones.
“Bombed-out buildings,” as one oldster said as we drove through East St. Louis years ago.
I liked the view of trees growing in the middle of abandoned ESL homes.