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 didn’t see any evidence of anyone “squirming.” All I saw was an impotent state legislator (Durkin) barking to any reporter who will listen, mainly because he has no power to actually do anything.
And what is wrong with the voters in the Chicago suburbs who thought that implanting democrats into a supermajority would result in a good outcome?
They erroneously believed that anything not Orange Man Bad would be a good outcome.