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.
“Get your act together. Stop with the one-time revenue sources. Get to the structural fixes because what you’re doing is not sustainable. You are out of time,” Ferguson said. Hmm, where did I read suggestions like that years ago, when the coming crisis was clear, and it would have been much easier to address? Let me think. It was on a site the politicians dismissed as alarmists and “carnival barkers.”