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.
Illinois used to have bail bondsmen who would pay the required bail for an arrested individual and then would charge about 10% of the bail as a fee for their services. The state eliminated the bondsmen and instead offered bail with the same 10% fee that the state/county kept as a processing fee. It made the whole process easier and eliminated the middle man, bondsmen. That 10% fee helped run the courts, the clerk’s office, the sheriff etc that processed arrested persons, public defenders, etc. Removing that fee is going to add additional costs, lots more costs, that can only… Read more »