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.
I take the progressive view; Throw’m in jail! We’re creating jobs for corrections officers. It’s a win-win!
Why has no one suggested reestablishing the state mental health hospital system. They didn’t call them asylums for nothing. People whose mental illness rendered them unable to cope with independent living had a place of shelter. They weren’t perfect, not even very good being dependent on state funding and management, but they were better than what we have now.