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.
This is a huge story from a credible research group, but will any of the mainstream Chicago media cover it. Nah. If they even read it they won’t want to deal with an analysis of the problems they have ignored for years and years.
Pritzker received an “F” in the last report I believe. Cato does this analysis of state governors every 2 years. He was 1 point away from getting a rating of “D”. All the governors with “A” ratings are republican and all the governors with an “F” rating are democrats. But other governors getting a “C” are DeSantis in Florida and Abbott in Texas. The report also goes into detail of each governors grade. I’ve included the link below even though Center Square has the link in their article.
https://www.cato.org/blog/fiscal-report-governors-2024