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.
The poor state of journalism has affected this article greatly. In one paragraph the WBEZ reporter says:
“Cook County Health is hustling to make services more efficient and to collect all the money its owed from patients and insurers.”
They cite no evidence to support this, or even any source who has made this claim.
This is one of those “without evidence” assertions that the media loves to make on Republicans now.
So true. ‘Journalists’ sit at their computer and read the twitter feed, and then turn it into ‘news’. I can’t believe news organizations pay journalists to tweet all day.
I can’t wait for Medicaid for All! We’ll all be going to Stroger!
Articale’s a look at a future if single payer medicaid for all becomes a reallity…. a polotition/seiu union patronage pork barrel dream..and fiscal disaster
But cc health is planning new provident hospital that nobody asked for, for $100s of millions a mile from u of c hospital ?? Who knws what the blanchard audit will disclose??