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.
Did that years ago. As soon as you need to replace a florescent ballast the LEDs make sense due to cost of the ballast. But then the direct wire ballast bypass 4 ft LEDs disappeared. And what you need still uses the ballast. The ballast is the biggest watt user.
Advance Transformer Company, one of the worst employers in Chicago, will not be happy! Am astonished that their junk existed this long and their “conservative engineering” has finally caught up with them.