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.
I would like the statements to be true for healthy employment. The US Bureau of Labor Statistics at the end of December 2021 ranked Illinois 40th with a 5.1% unemployment. Worse than our surrounding states. I wonder why the 2021 data was omitted from the chart.