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.
It amazes me that the interns at The Trib could even bring themselves to be even the slightest bit critical of the lurch towards rolling blackouts amid energy shortages created by Illinois’ political animals in service to the Religion of Climate. Trib Climate acolytes have long glossed over the obvious issues created intentionally by the Cleric authors of the green energy commandments. That the temperature has refused to cooperate with even mild climate cleric predictions for over thirty years, resulting in goal posts being moved and ever more dire climate cleric warnings is still lost on the climate scammers and… Read more »
Maybe the most laughable thing in the article is this: “None of the outside experts interviewed by the Tribune blamed the climate law, Gov. JB Pritzker or the legislature for the shortfall.” Did the goofus who wrote it even read the Tribune editorial recently warning about the looming crisis because of the law? It cites, among other experts, PJM, which manages the grid in northern IL.
Another failed agenda item for Pritzker, the man who wants to take away your freedoms and take control of your life.
In IL the SJW/ DEI/ Green crowd gets the money first and then produces dubious results ( if any at all ) later.
This is grossly understated but, still, progress for the Chicago Tribune to begin to recognize it.