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.
Honestly, this is frustrating. Madigan has been destroying the state for 40 years and only NOW do the Feds get around to looking into it? They’re still issuing subpoenas for ghost payroll ComEd consultants with ‘deep ties’ to Madigan? I mean, really? In a day in age where the feds record every voicemail, every phone call, every email, every internet search and have backdoors into half of the world’s cell phones, they’re issuing paper subpoenas to Bridgeview regarding communications between a consultant and Madigan? Seriously, this is the hill they are going to die on after 40 years?
The FBI has been too busy fixing presidential elections to bother with real corruption.