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.
And now the law firms business will triple although the new Speaker won’t get a dime. So does anybody like fairy tales?
“Ancel Glink”
This firm is has one of the largest government practice groups in the state. They represent cities and towns all over Illinois, many times on retainer, so your tax dollars are sending this firm a check every month whether they do any work or not.
IL politics is such a self-licking ice cream cone, and now an influential government law firm has a partner as the speaker of the house.
No one mentions this anywhere because it just is the way it is.
It is such a conflict of interest that it is beyond ridiculous. Of course it is exactly as the last Speaker lined his pockets, as an attorney who challenged real estate assessments. This kind of garbage should be outlawed.