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.
Of course West wants to move on from a fellow Dems blatant corruption. Those that don’t acknowledge the past are destined to repeat it.
Il Dems will never do meaningful ethics reform, just like Democrats will never clean up voter lists. Dems want to protect corruption.
Ethics reforms are of course desperately needed. Sisyphus would laugh at the likelihood of it happening in any meaningful way.