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.
Law firms are a distant second but only because they rarely exceed contribution limits even when they’ve been lifted. But partners in those firms will also max out their individual contributions.
The unions get a great return on investment; the taxpayers end up paying for it.
Sad that a mere $30,000,000 can buy infinity influence in Illinois’s Democrat politics. That’s less that 1/10th of what JB has spent on his two campaigns.
Confirmation that Illinois and Chicago are run by the public sector unions. They have gamed the voting system and destroyed Illinois in the process.
We top the nation in many bad things.