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.
For schools, it doesn’t matter who is President–schools are funded with state and local money. And incidentally, Detroit and Puerto Rico asked for bailouts and the Feds told them to get lost. Gerald Ford told NYC to “drop dead” in 1976 when it got into financial trouble. If CPS needs money for pencils and paper, organize some bake sales. The goal is to sell 12,000,000 Disney “Frozen” cupcakes for $1000 each to pay off the unfunded pension liabilities.