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.
With SVB and Signature bank, the first two business casualties of the recession have emerged. We now know how and where unprofitable and woke start-up businesses were getting their money. Interest rate risk was completely mismanaged by these woke idiots.
The low and middle consumers are already spent and going into debt just to survive. The upper middle and high end will soon tighten their belt. Smart money and good leaders would reassess their fiscal projections and adjust accordingly, but we are talking about Illinois here.