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.
Dem politicians hate to lay off public employees who are providers of reelection votes, and reliable sources of campaign contributions. The return favors will disappear as along with the employees’ excessive compensation and benefits. So, the layoffs are a double-edged sword. Mutual extortion becomes mutual destruction. So sad for all concerned.
Dems doing what Dems do best.
LA has the distinction of the second worst mayor in the US. While her understaffed, underfunded DEI FD was battling a predicted wildfire, she was dancing and partying it up in Africa. Its also recently come to light that she funded several million of the taxpayers dollars to a “preventative crime group “ for youths that was actually another social services front for thugs run by a well known Crips overlord.