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.
He paid about $73 per vote (4.7M votes, 2.5 in 2018, 2.2 in 2022) / $350,000,000.
Which makes sense, he’s got to pay ballot harvestors big $$ to walk the beats, collect the ballots; and it’s not cheap to pay off corporate media, they want $10’s of millions to buy their silence and never, ever say anything bad about JB.
But this is democracy!
It’s my understanding JBs campaign funding is from, offshore, Pritzker Family Trust and not from JBs personal wealth? Nobody in press bothers to point out