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.
Yes, 261 million in Monopoly money.
How many state workers are still sitting at home collecting big checks & doing nothing with 650,000 unemployeed (and who knows how many gig workers)? Where’s anders lindall and the like to explain what all those folks are doing for the $ while people are suffering? The press never asks? And nobody asks why this in morally acceptable
So much for shared sacrifice. Instead of using that $261 million to help minorities survive COVID and unemployment we’ll use it to make vile greedy rich government employees even richer. They can get richer but they can’t get more vile
This story should accompany any story reporting on the ridiculously tone deaf bailout request floated by our dear Democratic leaders.