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.
Can we assume from this some Illinois voters are finally waking up?
Poll, schmoll. If Butterworth got elected after toiletgate and the draconian, unnecessarily harsh covid mandates/ emergency orders, he’s a shoo in again. Blue union workers and lifelong welfare recipients know which side their bread is buttered on.
Ridiculous. Plenty of sitting governors have run for president with the support of their state’s electorate. Illinois’s electorate would support JB’s presidential aspirations, too, IF the state were growing with residents and jobs, public services were effective and taxes were value-based. JB’s popularity is falling along with Illinois’s performance.