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.
“The law has actually worked out fairly well,” said DuPage County State’s Attorney Bob Berlin. Yes, but only in the sense of unintended consequences. The purpose of the law was to free everybody but in practice, conservative areas tend to use the law to detain everyone. We’ll see how long this goes on for. The appellate court mostly upholds these detentions because what appellate court judge wants to be known as the judge that freed a murder suspect who went on to commit more heinous crimes. My guess is that within the next year or two, as these cases make… Read more »