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.
Ah, of course! The genius of a political party that tackles every issue by creating even more expensive programs with imaginary funds. Why fix the crumbling roads or address the failing infrastructure when you can invite in illegal border crossers and throw money at shiny new projects—like a billion-dollar that a multi-million dollar sports team wants. Who needs fiscal responsibility when you can just tax people to oblivion while promising them the world? Sure, the streets are falling apart, but at least we’ll have a nice view from that fancy, empty stadium once everyone’s fled the state!
Taxes equals revenues. If you had one of the highest revenues/income of all the members of your family and friends but yet you were still grossly in debt, what does that tell you? You make more money than most of the people you know but you still owe more than you can pay. Could it be that you are spending way more money than you should? Or is that little bit of basic economic knowledge more than your pea brains can understand?
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