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.
Like farmers cultivating crops for their livelihood, so do the employees of the mental health/ criminal justice system/ social services complexes. They make sure that there is always enough to keep them busy and continue to get that taxpayer money unabated. Like the Sharptons of the world re racism, they would have to go out and get real jobs if the problems were solved. Hence, they never will be.