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.
A status quo budget in a time when a million residents are unemployed, the state is broke, and they’re worried about laying off teachers who are working from home. And then they throw the ‘first responder’ thing in there. What about cutting grants? My park district got a big grant to tear down a perfectly good pavilion in a park to replace it with….a brand new pavilion that looks just like the old one. How many hundreds of thousands of dollars of union labor did it take to build that? This is going to blow up. Some here think that… Read more »