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.
Oh, it’s an “historic” agreement, make no mistake. Be interesting to read what results from a reporter asking the administration how much more additional cost this will add to Illinois’ already unaffordable Medicaid program. The Home Services Program was intended to decrease Medicaid costs by allowing public-aid eligible beneficiaries, who are at “imminent risk of nursing home placement,” to remain in their homes with help from “personal assistants” at less cost to taxpayers than Medicaid-funded institutionalization. Of course, given the fact that this is Illinois, “at imminent risk of nursing home placement” turned into thousands of people who are on… Read more »