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.
That’s the rub. Everybody and their brudder and brudder-in-law has a piece of the pie. Getting them to relinquish their cush income (I can’t even call half of them jobs) will be damned difficult at best.
The budgetary shell games have got to stop. As enrollment in CPS shrinks, so should its budget.
A pipe dream it this point.
How about eliminating 25-30% of the useless grifters positions and departments, and cutting Gubbermint for a change?