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.
It’s good news to the workers and the community. Not clear yet what the real costs are.
It’s still unclear how many Illinois & fed taxpayer $ bucks$ where promised to reopen Belvidere?
Quid Pro Qua on Gotion? Concerned since UAW has made no utterance on Gotion. Only people not at the table are the IL and American taxpayers.
Within the article it says “…the governor’s office to local and federal officials worked to put together an incentive package that Stellantis couldn’t walk away from” so, in true Crain’s form, the headline does not reflect 100% of the reality of the situation as it seems that Stellantis, a foreign corporation, is the one that is cashing in and not the State of Illinois.