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 scholarly comments of Representative Meier notwithstanding, this makes no sense. Most insurance companies and Medicare with pay for emergency ambulance service – if properly billed. Of course they pay less than what private ambulance companies might like to charge, and the company has to bill the responsible third party. But, we should raise taxes so that the private ambulance companies don’t have to do what all other providers do, bill insurance carriers for their services?
Maybe those that pay their bills are being called upon, again, to make up for the shortfall of those that don’t.