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.
Imagine that! Stacy Dave Gates and the Chicago Teachers Union treating some of its members like…well…like slaves on a plantation!
Cockroaches scramble and hide when you turn on the light.
The corruption of the CTU terrorist organization is bottomless. CTU is the poster child of the criminal evil of public sector unions. When SCOTUS finally agrees that public sector unions are deeply unconstitutional, these thieving grifters will be dumbly baffled and gobsmacked. CTU thinks that they have a right to free money and unlimited power in exchange for no work and votes sold to democrats.
I would love to see Gates squirm.
A must read, Jonathan Bilyk is simply the best political reporter hands down.
What’s remarkable is that, while Bilyk is not a lawyer, his reporting on legal matters is exceptional.