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.
Progressives can brag about electoral wins, but they can’t point to any positive results from their policies.
Yet the people in Illinois keep voting for them. What does that say about the ILGOP?
Redistricting Report Card for IL.
Grade: F
https://gerrymander.princeton.edu/redistricting-report-card?planId=recVPQuH6bmq0dNWQ
Not one statewide office was won by the ILGOP. Gerrymandering or not, the ILGOP doesn’t get enough votes state wide.
Extreme gerrymandering reduces turnout for the party out of power. They’ve done studies on this. That’s why swing states get high turnout but states like IL get low turnout. The other side doesn’t even bother trying. JB’s win was called the moment the polls closed. Why even bother as a Republican voting? At least Trump motivated some reluctant voters to IL come out, even if they knew Trump would lose IL, because they wanted to vote for him. Bailey got Trump’s endorsement at the last minute and 700,000 Trump voters couldn’t be bothered to show up. Not that it would… Read more »
It says the voters have been indoctrinated for generations in public schools that are little more than progressive madrasas. Koolaid for all!