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.
Hopefully with a little luck and some hard politicking, the GOP can pull off an inside straight and get a favorable map. Not likely but certainly within the realm of possibilities given the late census data. But I suspect the ultimate result, in light of the Supreme Court’s decision to legalize gerrymandering, will be every state legislature maximizing their votes. Kentucky is about to eliminate their only D seat to congress and Maryland their only R seat. Illinois will likely eliminate least 2, possibly 3, Republican seats we will have left after this new census. The hard part is that… Read more »