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.
South siders are only getting this because that I80 bridge is about to collapse, I stopped driving over that thing, the schools have stopped sending school busses over it too. The biggest incompetent blunder was killing the illiana tollway tough. The only growing industry in Illinois is warehousing and shipping due to geography, and that idiot rauner goes and kills the one highway that could have been a boom to Illinois economy. I80 just doesn’t cut it anymore for getting under Lake Michigan going east west.