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.
To me Rich Miller is a posster child for what is wrong in Illinois.
He has a near monopoly on access journalism in Springfield. Most state political narratives are filtered through Rich and his low-rent 2005 website. It’s always ‘Democrat good, Republican bad, Q-anon science deniers.’ If you read that site for the first time, you’d think that Rauner was the sole cause of all of IL’s problems, even the problems that pre-existed Rauner’s term! The political class likes it that way. The more secretive they are, the better it is for one-party rule. The general public has little idea what is going on in Springfield. A majority of house races have no opponent.… Read more »
This one, too, is transparent spin. He is basically trying to make it sound like the HCRCA amendments were a kind of tort reform, which Republicans are supposed to support. Please.
Just linking the picture of the author from the article …