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.
Strange, articale fails to mention that state and local govs have an astounding $1.5 billion available for rental & mortgage assistance and have only been able to get a tiny fraction, $180 million, out the door. Probably due to state/ afscme hero incompetence or blame it on rauner or something. Just like over at ides,
more titanic jb flops. https://www2.illinois.gov/dceo/Media/PressReleases/Pages/PR20210517.aspx
I agree wholeheartedly. Let us begin with a special tax on the Chicago Sun-Times and its parent corporation to pay for it.
What could possibly be more fair?