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.
When will the goalpost be moved.
Well this is a surprise. Not. Fiddling the figures to a) keep us locked down until November in the hope of getting a Democratic President and Senate and b) to get his federal bail out no longer passes muster. The Governor’s authority has started to be undermined, his power ebbing away. If he digs in, a tsunami will wash him away.
God Bless America
Lookie here, lookie here! Statewide resistance is forming and suddenly the black box says its OK to move to phase three!
Sadly, that’s not the case, he’s still expecting us to sit around for weeks even once metrics are met without ever justifying why he believes that is necessary (other than reciting the words “data and science” as if they mean something).
Just heard a big resort in NW IL filed bankruptcy and closed given that gatherings of 50 people or more are suspended, for all practical purposes, indefinitely.