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.
Looks like they have audit scheduled to come out after election.. who would have thunk!!!!
Kind of crazy, in my opinion, that Burke alone controlled a $100,000,000 a year city workers compensation program, with zero – absolutely zero oversight – that no one else anywhere in government even had the right to look at. This doesn’t exist anywhere else in state or local government. Absolutely insane. It’s inviting corruption.
Right. It’s inexcusable. We’ve long written about that. I’d like to get just the number of workers comp cases granted and pending. Rumor has long been it’s something like 1/8 of the workforce.