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.
That 41.3 million bucks could also hire hundreds of additional workers to lean on a shovel watching one guy who actually works.
Is this why we don’t have chain gangs anymore? Word gets out where an inmate will be working and someone plants a gun for him?
Third world behavior.
Solution? Chain gangs, remember them?
One of my favorite movies was Cool Hand Luke. Great casting.