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.
New map coming out tomorrow. 14D-3R. Davis and Kinzinger out.
Keep in mind the ratio of D to R voters in IL is 3-2. Seats should be 10-7 with 41% of seats to Rs instead of 17%. democracy!
At least our neighbors to the north and east of us have worse ratios. In favor of R’s thankfully.
But Ours is a trash state swirling down the toilet.
Every state is gerrymandering to the extreme. Follow Wasserman on twitter. Indiana just approved a 7R-2D. Utah is 4R-0D with SLC split three or four ways. Arkansas is IIRC 4 or 5R and 0D. Maryland is purposely going 8D-0R, FL is going 19R-9D, NM is getting rid of their lone R seat for a for a totally D map, WI is looking like it’s going to go 6R-2D despite Trump allegedly losing the state by a slim margin. Texas is going 25R-13D. Every state is doing it, I don’t blame IL for doing it too with the suggested 13D-4R, but… Read more »