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.
Well, welcome to the show, Civic Federation. Where have you been the last four years on this topic? Wirepoints has been pounding on this for three years now, and the Civic Fed and other business groups have had their heads in the sand. Great! You finally woke up.
Two things are certain in life: death and taxes. In Illinois, four things are certain in life: death; taxes; mismanagement, and its awful offspring, fiscal cliffs.