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.
“Budget surplus funds”?
What the hell does that mean in a totally bankrupt state?
Illinois is riding with the 4 new horsemen of the apocalypse (crime, taxes, illegals, and public sector unions).
After destroying our once thriving horse track industry with the lottery, then off track betting, then video gambling, then on line sports betting– the state give a crummy little $5.1 million to the horses. Laughable on its face. Many of us remember Arlington Park, Balmoral, Washington Park, Sportsman’s, and all the downstate great tracks. And all the thousands of jobs lost. This is a joke by some not so funny Democrats.
Horse racing no longer has a near monopoly on legalized gambling. Competition for the gambling dollar has grown enormously in the last few decades and that’s a good thing. Race tracks have tried to stay relevant with slots and becoming casinos but it’s not working. Many people still enjoy “playing the ponies” but the gambling world is moving forward. I don’t think the state should be supporting purses with $5 million of budget surplus money. If the sport can’t survive on it’s own, it should be allowed to die.