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.
If you think that the last national election was on the square, you are softer than whale poop.
In 1986 and 1990 there was a Committee for Honest Elections chaired and staffed by both parties. Jim Thompson and Phil rock were chairs. It was a bipartisan effort to get rid of some of the worst election corruption in Cook County and East St. Louis, but also with oversight in Lake County and DuPage County. It did a great job in cleansing the voter registration rolls of tens of thousands of phony registrants, plus monitoring hundreds of polling places on election day with volunteer watchers and lawyers. Nothing like is since so you can imagine the rampant fraud ever… Read more »