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.
After reading this law in its entirety, I see loopholes big enough to drive a Mack truck through that MIGHT make it ultimately just a liberal virtue signaling exercise with little if any practical effect. For one thing, it seems to apply mainly to PUBLIC libraries and library systems, not (directly) to school libraries. The only requirement it imposes on public libraries is that they adopt a “policy” against “book banning”, and that policy can be either the ALA Bill of Rights OR a policy the library composes for itself. As long as they have a policy on file, they… Read more »
Right on, Elaine. The bill is progressive hot air.