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.
Laws and the legal system are essentially powerless to address (let alone solve) this economic problem. There is enough flex in the legal system (together with enough ambiguity in the constitution) that an elected court can say what it wants. Government entities are unable to comply with court orders either because they have no money or because no public official is accountable to anybody other than voters (under an electoral system of questionable integrity). Irresponsible officials have insufficient personal assets to pay for the dollar damage caused by their flagrant violation of laws. Lots of lawyers are “out there” to… Read more »