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.
Sure, we can implement these changes, we just need 1,000,000 more straight ticket Republican ballots counted in the mid-terms. JB increased his party’s mid-term turnout by 800,000; surely, the Republicans can increase their own by 1,000,000, right?
Talk is CHEAP.
Higher taxes are set in Stone.
The slide down is going to last another generation.
Do the cash flow and no way but much higher taxes.
The working public was sold out by the politicians for the public sector vote. Now the bill is coming due and will last another 50 plus years.