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.
Toilet Bowl Pritzker is a big supporter of the P. T. Barnum quote, There is a sucker born every minute. Batteries and solar panels on your home is a big scam. Batteries in or on your house is very dangerous, thermal runaways, hydrogen venting. solar on the roof how about added ice and snow load, joist failure, homeowners insurance increases. The chance of lightning strikes that destroy both panels and batteries, surge suppression systems don’t come cheap. maintaining the system costs money. selling your home, maybe the new buyer does not want the system these and other problems can cost… Read more »
I wonder if Pritzker is invested in these green energy stocks/companies, and how much does he stand to make?
Shows the Democrats care not a bit about the havoc and damage to IL consumers from their CEJA. Rather they want to double down and provide more grift. Higher energy costs are just fine with Democrats.
This is a horrendous bill that would force more taxpayer subsidies for “energy storage” — batteries the back up the unreliable solar and wind that Illinois invested in. It would double down on Illinois’s green energy folly, at taxpayer expense.
The latest article from Visual Capitalist shows us the ( mostly blue ) states with the highest energy costs all engage in “ energy sustainability “ or some such green nonsense.