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.
Well NOW we all know the reason she left. It’s the usual one too: MONEY. Kirkland will be paying her $$$ as they can sell her services as the former attorney general of Illinois. Her salary as AG was probably decent but not great, and the pension will be good, but not sufficient to give her a retirement lifestyle deserving of a high powered attorney. She’s got 10-12 years left of seriously hard work as a private practice attorney and she’ll earn literally millions of dollars. As for the DC angle of her practice. I’m sure some of it relates… Read more »