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.
Ridiculous to fabricate a “lead lobby” as an explanation. Under the old regime in Chicago the building trade unions wrote the building codes. Cast iron and lead are much more labor intensive than plastic as any do-it-yourselfer knows. The unions wanted to keep the codes as labor intensive as possible for as long as possible to keep the guys working. That is more likely the explanation for why Chicago was so slow to change labor-friendly building codes.