By Ameya Pawar and Ted Cox. 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.
“If you’re looking for a way to address social disparities — the hot topic right now with the focus on entrenched systemic racism — what better way than a fair tax?”
I guess it never occurred to the people like the authors who vote for and comprise the permanent Dem majority at all levels of Chicago politics that they created the “system” yielding systemic racism. Then again, maybe it did and they know the con they’re running.
These people are just awful.
It’s Ameya Pawar, so yes, he’s fully aware on the con.