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.
As the article suggests, I don’t think we’ll ever find out how many billions of dollars of “COVID relief” – PPP loans, unemployment benefits, Medicaid waiver exceptions, student loans – were spent on fraud, waste and abuse. No politician of any political party, nor any of the Federal or state “swamp creatures,” have any real interest in exposing just how badly managed all of this was. They all enriched themselves, bought votes and gained influence by shoveling buckets full of taxpayer dollars into who-knows-who’s pockets and bank accounts. None of them have any interest in illuminating this because none of… Read more »