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.
How about a far increase that hasn’t happened in nearly 10 YEARS!
What that bill should have included was a requirement to eliminate wasteful spending and political hires.
That’s what Chicago Transit has dissolved into. Political hiring and wasting taxpayer money on a service less and less customers line up for every year.
Good luck getting political animals to cede power and/or derail the gravy train.