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.
Well this article has a great headline but it doesn’t hold anyone accountable. The auditors for illinois are actually hired by the legislature and live within the illinois political ecostructure for 10 year terms. The sickening part is Illinois has a long history of recurring issues such as significant funding of pension issues, unemployment trust accounting issues, internal control weaknesses, etc. What is even more egregious is that the opinion relates to the unemployment compensation fund and other areas in the audit got a clean bill of health (unqualified opinion.) According to the comptroller, the auditors stated that IDES outsourced… Read more »