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.
Replacing the lead water lines is still monopolized by City Water Dept crews performing work with all their crazy work rules on TM basis at $16k to $30k a pop vrs being contracted out at fixed rate? It’s my understanding other cities are doing lead line replacements for far less. Maybe with passage of Amendment 1 it’s to late to take the $8 billion worth of lead water line replacement work away from City Water Dept and that’s because that’s way, big political contributor, Operating Engineers want it. But nobody in press even asks.