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.
One has to question as to what municipalities mean when they claim that they need to recoup “ lost revenue “. Nary a mention of layoffs or abandoning wasteful projects as when Joliet recently tried to sneak a 197K “ sculpture “ that resembled an arch of toilet paper past the taxpayers until the residents raised holy hell about such nonsense in a town with torn up, poorly patched, rutted streets and sidewalks worn down to gravel.
Presidential nominee incipient Pritzger is willing to use all devices available to burnish his resume. One hopes that he is a “poor player who struts and frets his hour upon the stage. And then is heard no more.”