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.
Ok, let’s do basic math:
Illinois population 12,670,000
62% is working age: 7,855,400
Illinois unemployment rate in July 2020, 11%
So IDES should have expected about 864,000 VALID claims for unemployment
Which means IDES was handling more fraudulent claims (1,000,000) than valid claims. When they saw the numbers didn’t make sense, what action was taken?
Nice job Democrats!