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.
Sounds like Lion Electric needs another infusion of taxpayer-funded subsidies! What we have here isn’t failure to communicate; what we have here is mismanagement of taxpayer funds.
This shouldn’t surprise anyone because at present electric school buses area a crummy product. The upfront cost per vehicle is way too high. Their range in cold weather is not acceptable. Their high maintenance issues keep too many of them out of service requiring diesel backups be available. There is plenty of evidence around the country that the concept just doesn’t work. But JB and Illinois plowed ahead anyway and frittered away hundreds of millions which will likely be a total loss.