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.
$171 million. That is the amount of his own money he put into his recent governor campaign, per nbcchicago, in 2018.
Democrats railed on Rauner the millionaire gov. And then they turned around and elected – overwhelmingly – a billionaire head of government, who inherited and hides his money and refuses to release his entire tax returns. Sound familiar? It’s like Trump!
Why isn’t Kwame demanding Fat Slob release his full tax returns, including that of his offshore trusts (which are paying zero state income tax)? Why isn’t he subpoenaing his tax returns, fishing for a crime, just like all the other Dem attorney generals are targeting Trump? The hypocrisy is unbelievable.