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.
A recent Illinois Policy Institute report recommended consolidating school districts, not schools or collective bargaining agreements, and not offering state financial incentives for consolidating.
Those recommendations address some of the reasons some past consolidations have resulted in hiked not reduced costs.