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.
There are also residential mortgage debt and education debt crises. Should IL borrow money to resolve (or partially resolve) those? How about the Social Security crisis? Then there’s the Climate Crisis and the Sea Level Crisis and multiple Lake Michigan Crises. Each of these does or will adversely affect one or another minority group. Many of these will be Old People or Gay People or Native Americans or (my favorite) Children. Then let’s not forget the Veterans and remember the Immigrants who need to learn English and be supplied with translators to attend their arraignments. Anyone attempting to establish a… Read more »