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.
Corruption in Illinois will not end until public sector unions are made Illegal. Public sector union bribery of Illinois Democrat politicians in exchange for grossly above market wages and benefits in exchange for votes and boots on the ground at election time is the self-perpetuating cycle of Illinois corruption. Bust the unions and you bust the corruption. Simple as that.
There is plenty of government corruption in Illinois that is unrelated to unions.
UIC has a website devoted to corruption.