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.
Sports betting will generate the revenue IL needs. Wait, wasn’t that what the lottery was supposed to do 40+ years ago? I am old enough to remember the promises that with the lottery, we would never have to worry about school funding again. And then we could talk about tollways eliminated once the roads were paid for…