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.
Old Joe remembers when yhe Michigan Lottery started in the early 70s. Tickets were only 50 cents and the whole program was sold on the assumption that the schools would never be hurting for money again.
The end result was it allowed teachers to retire in their mid fiftys with health care and 3K a month.
The LOTTERY is a regressive form of taxation. nothing to be proud about
It’s voluntary so it’s easily avoided.