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 am happy to see we are using methods from others states who are better run than ours. Thank you, Missouri. I wonder if the IDiOT budget will be reduced now. Maybe we can redeploy them to a new task like the national guard, the winter weather platoons. Let me remind the governor, winter is over, maybe something else.
This is must pass legislation. This streamlining is absolutely needed in Illinois. It will remove costly barriers for contracts to be awarded on a no bid basis to big campaign donors.