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.
Many of the critics will work there alongside their children.
Good jobs in the middle of nowhere are hard to come by.
For the $8 billion subsidy for the plant, they could have just given a million bucks to every household in Manteno and had plenty to spare.
Mark are you a democrat?
They just did, but now they have to work for it. Over the life of the plant millions and millions will be paid out in the form of wages.
Chitty investment for sure, but better than the Viet Nam war or Iraq war. Or even worse giving money to the CPS.