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.
I think the reason IL cost estimates for large expenditures so often end up drastically under actual costs is because IL doesn’t factor in what I like to affectionately call corruption costs. Therefore, estimates for future, large expenditures should include a 50 percent add-on for corruption, so the estimates will be much closer to actual costs.
What the actual cost is not the inflated cost hopefully to get reimbursed from the federal govt are entirely separate matters. Right now the cost is well over $80K for a family of four for the jumpers mostly going to those allegedly taking care of them. Right now a family of four citizens making $80K are paying the mortgage/auto payments/clothing/insurance/food/taxes/etc which none of the jumpers are doing or paying for. Totally inflated costs for purpose of getting reimbursed down the road.
P.S. Does not include all the charity many are getting from local organizations.