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.
It isn’t really that complicated, but Illinois and Chicago Dems just don’t get it. Talk to any business location consultant and they all tell you the same thing: property and income taxes, low crime, good transportation, available skilled workers, available affordable housing for those workers, good health care, good public education, cultural options and low government regulatory environment. You really don’t need an MBA to understand this, but you do need to have the desire to provide those attributes, which is what is lacking in Illinois.