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.
The Illinois recovery, such that is, is stalling. Seasonally adjusted non-farm payroll has declined for four straight months and the year over year increase in jobs has fallen every month since March. Illinois’ reached its peak employment level in September 2000 and is still more than 80,000 jobs shy of the cyclical peak in January 2008. Clearly November’s change of administration was not enough, our state needs leadership change in the Senate and House.
But Cullerton says everything is great! Him and Madigan must be staffing up to protest the new tax hikes for their Chicago clients.