Totaling the unsustainable tax increases and windfall revenue during Pritzker Administration – Wirepoints
May 25, 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.
My township exists only to give pensions to the trustees. Sure there are a few roads, a food bank and a quarterly newsletter. But that’s about it.
Township in my neck of the woods donates $5,000 every year to the senior citizen’s center assuring votes for the status quo. Nothing will change in Illinois ever.
Illinois is unfixable – it’s set up to be sub optimized to maximize patronage.
“Nothing is so permanent as a temporary government program.” ― Milton Friedman
Perfect example. Wheatland Township aka the Will County border area between Naperville and Plainfield. They keep buying shiny new trucks, have a hidden away “Township Office” tucked in behind a Naperville Fire Station and in the 12 years we have lived here, never done a single thing of value that I or my neighbors can see, and we are literally within a quarter mile of this bunker of waste. They have a Park Commission with Trustees, the park is in Plainfield. Their pretty website have pictures of Neuqua Valley HS, but that’s in Naperville. There is a Board of Trustees,… Read more »
Spot on same thing by me Lockport township
Yea, township employees, road commissioners and the like all use township equipment on their farms and businesses down in Clark county.