Totaling the unsustainable tax increases and windfall revenue during Pritzker Administration – Wirepoints
May 25, 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.
Maybe this would improve if the state of Illinois patronage workers would finally come to work. They have been off for a year now. No work being done in major agencies including the attorney general, workers comp commission, Secretary of State, borates or ethics and others.
Yup, and the cash cows keep getting paid.
I know for a fact that legitimate claims are being denied too as they purge for fraud. This is a scandal, a true scandal, that no one wants to hold fat boy accountable for.
It’s only a scandal when the fake news decides it is a scandal. Otherwise an insignificant administrative snafu
The local fake news media has yet to turn on JB like they all turned on Cuomo.
Assume they won’t do that as too many of those working in –at least the Chicago news–are related to Democrats in government–Durbin and others.
If the Nigerian fraudsters can find the ‘data breach’ personal info on the ‘dark web’, then why can’t law enforcement?
Overwhelmed = incompetent
Incompetent burnouts just holding on until they can collect their pensions. Likely old and computer illiterate with compensation commensurate with their seniority, leaving no budget to hire people who could fix this. It wouldn’t surprise me to find their relatives on the list of those getting payments — with these employees having schooled them how to do it. Let’s form a task force!