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.
$556 million per quarter plus grease for every bill passed.
That’s all? Seems low.
Welcome to demoncrat machine politics. Ed Burke, indicted alderman, is worth millions. In his late 70’s with a law practice and booming insurance biz and a supreme court justice wife yet he couldn’t turn down or solicited a $10K bribe so someone could open a business. The color of money is all Chicago/Cook County politicians recognize.
And this is a surprise?