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.
That $40M will make 750 beds, many that are already existing, “permanent beds.” That’s $53K per bed. This spending is just about as outrageous as the construction spending per unit for affordable housing. Maybe they should ask HGTV to offer some lower cost solutions.
My first house cost 64,000. It had 3 bedrooms.
Wait, for $40 million couldn’t you have 40 first rate homeless shelters?