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.
Probably the same rate at which they get money from lawyers, unions, the hospital association and the medical society. Quelle surprise when legislation gets enacted that sends the money back to them via the taxpayer. As said below “legal bribe” with a very high rate of return.
Designated these teachers unions as political activist groups. They are not labor unions, and haven’t been for a long time. Cap how much they can donate to political campaigns.
Pubic unions control this state, all is lost!
But they claim they need money for the kids.
It is called a legal bribe. Politicians work for the highest payer.
Problem is, it’s not just the “highest payer”. The Public Employee (read: Taxpayer Compensated) Unions also give Democrats foot soldiers to get petition signatures, pass out literature on Election Day, make phone calls, etc. Republicans don’t have that “built in” campaign support system.