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.
Only in Illinois is corruption an expected activity for elected officials and thus “criminal defense fees constitute customary and reasonable expenses” for an officeholder’s governmental and public service functions”. Just like campaign mailers and rent on the office space. Usual and Customary.
Disgusting. nearly 100 years of single party rule has lead to this perversion where politicians are expected to be thieves and criminals.
“During oral arguments before the Supreme Court in January, much of the discussion focused on whether criminal defense fees constitute “customary and reasonable expenses” for an officeholder’s governmental and public service functions.”
These scumbag lawyers have no self awareness, not that it would matter to your average trial attorney, much less the elite scumbag who gets hired to defend the indefensible. Only in the corrupt State of Illinois would this be a legal use of campaign funds.
Illinois is lost.