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.
“…people who have served at least 10 years of a drug-related sentence, persons who are 65 or older and have served 20 years of their sentence, people who were under 21 at the time of their offense and have served at least 15 years and people who have served at least 10 years for a theft, robbery or burglary conviction” Thing is, no one who received any one of these lengthy jail sentences got it because it was their first conviction. In Illinois, everyone eligible for having this law reduce their sentence will be someone with a lengthy record of… Read more »