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.
Once the city & state “city of big shoulders” now the “city of the $$BIG$$ lawsuit” the obvious answer is—tax the lawsuit settlements & ITLA, if you want to settle your national cases is super lawsuit friendly/ judicial hell hole CC then you gotta pay$$$$$…..it’s are #1 industry!!!
The meat of the article was buried about halfway into it, when it described the process of using shell bills to ram through legislation. Gut and replace entire language in a bill that has already been approved through 2/3 of the process? How is this even legal? Must be those bad voters up to their usual tricks.
Pretty sure that this is unconstitutional and just another clownish ‘law’ that Kwaumie will waste millions trying to defend. Legal jurisdiction isn’t a willy nillly thing that can be claimed by any state.