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.
Perhaps ask billionaires Wirtz & Reinsdorf how they privately funded the United Center and paid it off in about 7 years why that approach won’t work for the Bears and Sox. And what about the cost of redeveloping the neighborhood around Gauranteed Rate into a place people would want to be before and after games. Would that be cheaper and more useful to the community and team?