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.
The asbestos disaster in Philly schools is another reason to ask if we are seeing a failure of democracy, as Ben Franklin warned us (he said no democracy can last forever because people will keep voting themselves raises and eventually the republic will go bankrupt). Philly schools is out of options–the buildings are past their expiration date, there’s no money to fix them, and any new tax money will go to pensions. The 2020 Board meetings are going to be pretty crazy.
https://thenotebook.org/articles/2020/01/02/new-year-opens-with-protests-concerns-about-health-conditions-in-schools/